Hi DevOps, how do you think your ideal programming language would look like? I mean a language in which you would write pipeline logic, like Python or Bash, not define pipeline steps itself, like YAML.
I think for me it would have:
- very clean and readable syntax
- immutable state by default
- strong typing
- strong tooling and IDE support
- focus on DevOps-need things, like JSON and files manipulation
- absence of danger things like pointers
The advantage of yaml is idempotency, so you really should be using generators to produce outputs that you then check in. This gives you a state repo, which when tools feed from to produce a final state, you always have the same result.
Check out CDK for an example.