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I agree with this statement. The world is absolutely chock full of weird control flow constructs layered on top of YAML. When I opened this repo and saw it was YAML driven I just rolled my eyes.

With just a little bit of effort, shell scripting really isn’t that arcane.

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>With just a little bit of effort, shell scripting really isn’t that arcane.

It isn't, but at least bash and posix shell don't really have scoping, structured variables, or reliable error handling (too many ways an error code can be invisibly dropped)

To get them, you need to use a less used shell like hush or powershell. And one reason those haven't taken over, is that if you have to add a dependency you might as well use a full language anyway. But I agree that YAML isn't a good option for scripting either

Yeah exactly, Python if you need all those features for safety. If portability is more important to you, maybe it’s OK to put up with the weird quirks of bash.

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