Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

The difference is in shared understanding. With tools like CUE or Starlark, you can learn one system and everyone can reason across each other's work. With imperative languages, every instance is a snowflake and creates significant mental overhead. It's the flexibility that is actually the problem for configuration. I get there is/was a trend towards general purpose languages in DevOps, but I think we are post peak on the adventure.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: