yaml-sucks
github-workflows-kt
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2.2 | 9.7 | |
10 months ago | 7 days ago | |
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- | Apache License 2.0 |
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yaml-sucks
- XML is better than YAML
- Lingy brings to Perl what Clojure did for Java
- Docker Compose With TOML?
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This just sucks.
Here are some examples.
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Python 3.11 is out !
It's got a pretty complex spec and it does not take much to become completely unreadable by humans, not to mention the issues with parsing it.
- Does viper catch yaml config files with invalid syntax
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Bob: A build system beyond building
Even simple examples don't get parsed the same between implementations.
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copygen: Generate type-to-type and field-to-field struct code without reflection or dependencies (391x faster than copier)
There are plenty of well documented issues with YAML.
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How to use YAML Aliases
Looks like some of this is either unsupported or unpredictable by different YAML parsers: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
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Tuxedo control center: community edition
YAML sucks, use TOML instead. It is much more sane and as easy to use as YAML.
github-workflows-kt
- GitHub Actions could be so much better
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XML is better than YAML
We use Kotlin to generate the yaml for our github actions: https://github.com/typesafegithub/github-workflows-kt
Nothing like a good old type safe compiled language to cut down on the verbosity, copy paste usage, silly syntax errors, weird undocumented you just have to know the magical incantations, etc. Kotlin or similar languages are the way to go. Much safer, more compact, easier to cut down on the copy paste reuse (which is just miserable drudgery), easy to introduce some sane abstractions where that makes sense. You get auto completion. And if it compiles, it's likely to just work.
People keep on moving around the deck chairs on the proverbial Titanic when it comes to configuration languages. Substituting yaml for json or toml just moves the problems. And substituting those with XML just introduces other issues and only marginally improves things. Well formed xml is nice. But so is well formed json. Schemas help, if the urls don't 404 and you have tools that can actually do something with them. Which, as it turns out is mostly not a thing in practice. And without that, it's just repetitive bloat. XML with schemas becomes very hard to read quickly.
There's a reason, people started ignoring XML once json became popular: json does most of the essential stuff well enough that XML just isn't worth the effort. And if you have something where you'd actually need the complexity of XML, it's likely to be some really ugly bloated kind of thing where the last thing you'd want to do is edit it manually.
I've dealt with cloudformation in XML form at some point in my life. It sucks. Not just a little bit. It's an absolute piss poor format for a thing like that. Since such a thing was lacking at the time, we ended up actually building our own little tools to generate that xml. Hand editing it was just too painful. One mistake could corrupt your entire stack. And it takes ages to find out if you actually got it right. In Json form it's hardly any better. It's just one of those convoluted over-engineered things. Anyway, Json support for cloudformation was not there at the time and the difference is like asking whether you'd preferred to be shot or stabbed. It's going to suck either way.
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Typesafe Github Workflows explained to a 5 years old
github-workflows-kt is a tool for creating GitHub Actions workflows in a type-safe script, helping you to build robust workflows for your GitHub projects without mistakes, with pleasure, in Kotlin.
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Guides for Kotlin scripting use case
The github-workflows-kt project uses Kotlin scripting, and it recommends doing everything using main.kts, because it's easier.
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Feature Flags in a CI Pipeline
I use matrix tests with github actions to test my kt-search client with different versions of elastisearch and opensearch. Pretty easy to set up: https://github.com/jillesvangurp/kt-search/blob/master/.gith...
Basically it fires up elasticsearch using docker-compose and then the integration tests run against that. You could use a similar strategy to test different feature flag combinations.
For some of our private projects, we use kts to generate the github action yaml files using this: https://github.com/krzema12/github-workflows-kt
Well worth checking out if you have more complex workflows. Yaml is just horrible in terms of copy paste reuse. Also nice to get some compile time safety and auto complete with our action files.
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Kts Scripting of Yaml & Json Dialects
One of my team members, Nikky, got annoyed with the verbosity and insane amount of copy-paste reuse needed to drive Github Actions. And true to her nature, promptly fixed it by using and contributing to GitHub Actions Kotlin DSL
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GitHub Actions: a New Hope in YAML Wasteland
GitHub: https://github.com/krzema12/github-actions-kotlin-dsl
- GitHub Actions Kotlin DSL
What are some alternatives?
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goverter - Generate type-safe Go converters by simply defining an interface
maven-simple - Example Maven project demonstrating the use of
LGV_MeetingServer - An aggregation server for meeting list servers.
nix-configs - My Nix{OS} configuration files
kotlinpoet - A Kotlin API for generating .kt source files.
copygen - Go generator to copy values from type to type and fields from struct to struct (copier without reflection). Generate any code based on types.
github-actions-typing - Bring type-safety to your GitHub actions' API!