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Wow, I'm actually surprised at how unconvinced I am. Moving from a declarative config syntax to arbitrary Python is rarely a good idea, and "the point of this is to run commands" feels pretty flat to me - after all, the "point" of setup.py was to run commands, but we all know the problems that caused.

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"This declarative configuration format is great, but having to define 100 items by hand is tedious and error-prone. Let's make a DSL that supports conditions and loops!"

"This custom DSL is great, but there's zero tooling for it. Let's use a real language instead!"

"This Python-based config is great, but my config file takes ages to run, and even longer to understand. Let's make a simple declarative configuration format!"

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