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IDK. I've been using buck for a bit, and having python within grasp is pretty useful. I don't like yaml for a variety of reasons, but the biggest of which is I like my config being able to be generated... maybe that's an anti pattern? IDK. Would love to know more about your take on yaml vs anything more pythoney.

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I'm not very familiar with Buck. But I'm assuming it works the same way as Bazel's Starlark?

I can see the benefits of "generating code" within the BUILD file, but honestly, we haven't required it yet, and have been able to do most things with explicit configuration. Our token syntax helps with some dynamic aspects of this.

Maybe in the future we'll revisit this.

What makes yaml not generatable?

Sorry, I meant more dynamic than generatable... like doing stuff in the build file to build something complex in a more simple way.

It's really 'do you make config an artifact, or do you make it code' sort of argument.

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