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CUE is far and away the best pure configuration language I have seen. https://cuelang.org/
I can use mypy and all the other existing linting tools to make sure my configuration is correct without having to write a custom linter (and basically reimplement 10% of mypy).
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A great example is pyinfra https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra#readme Think Ansible but instead of YAML you write Python. It provides a set of primitives/DSL and some rules you need to adhere to, but otherwise you just write regular python code. I
Something like Dhal?
From what I hear people saying I'd guess its main usage is being a general purpose language that creates those shitty YAML based formats as outputs.
Anyway, I'm in complete agreement with the article. CI pipelines and infrastructure as code should both be defined in code, real code. Configuration files are the place you set the values for your variables, not the place you do calculations with them.