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Investigate Configuration Languages #35

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magmastonealex opened this issue Jun 26, 2019 · 1 comment

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magmastonealex commented Jun 26, 2019

Some teams expressed concern with using YAML since they were not familiar with it.

Investigate some alternatives:

JSON
Hashicorp Configuration Language
YAML, but with some tutorials.

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magmastonealex commented Jul 25, 2019

In the second peer usability study, the same team one again expressed concern over YAML causing unnecessary friction.

In particular, the "recipes" section was described as being too verbose, and annoying to configure manually.

We should consider allowing syntax closer to:

- java
- [email protected]

etc.

This would mean that packages become an array of strings to parse, rather than an array of objects.

Unfortunately, this would probably be a breaking change, unless we do something really smart with schema.

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