MusicBox VS sharpliner

I wrote a music synth library called Scott's MusicBox. The source is on github:

https://github.com/OhioVR/MusicBox

I tried to emulate orchestral sounds using an abandoned sample collection using it with some success but no one really liked it.

I also had problems with our point of sale at work which I tried to improve with a picture book with bar codes over the items. That helped me scan items without upc labels. Hit and miss but I'm going to have to sell my printer so that project is also dead.

I didn't appreciate developing Azure Pipelines in YAML so I've created a library that lets you use C# instead.

Aside the apparent advantages of the strong typed environment, I was able to bake in many more features that make your life easier. Code reuse is also super easy.

https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

I use a library called Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# instead of YAML. It has features around sourcing scripts that you might appreciate - it can take scripts from embedded resources and inline them in the YAML which gives you best of the both worlds:

Second, you might be into this: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

For some of the problems you mention (variable contexts), there are some things that can be done (e.g. https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/125).

In case you're just starting with YAML pipelines and you are using C# (which it seems you do), you can have a look at Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# for pipelines. Sharpliner contains some useful shortcuts/macros such as If.IsPullRequest or If.IsBranch("main"), potentially If.And(IsPullRequest, IsBranch("main")) which makes this more readable and easy to use.

I did sort of explore this possibility here: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/7