On: The No-Code Generation is arriving

[musingsole]

I was almost bitten by a project like this, despite ample protests the whole way long that "configuration" was just becoming a "crappy programming language". All too often I still have to deal with someone who thinks because logic hinges on a value in a JSON file, they've magically abstracted away the concern of what it is that the code should be doing.

[mmmm2 → musingsole]

It reminds me of Ant configuration files. They have loops and if else:

  <for list="a,b,c,d,e" param="letter">
    <sequential>
      <echo>Letter @{letter}</echo>
    </sequential>
  </for>

I call it The Devil's Lisp :).

[dahhakd → mmmm2]

Man, I'm not from the Java world, but these days I had to deal with it for a project and had to mess with ant builds, which I have never dealt with before. I was totally baffled. I just do not understand why would anyone subject themselfs to such levels of pain.

[int_19h → dahhakd]

I take it you haven't seen EJB2.

Let's just say that it was a more brutal age, and we were more accustomed to such horrors. :)

[Pokepokalypse → mmmm2]

oh, then you'll love terraform.

[closeparen → Pokepokalypse]

At least what you're writing down in Terraform is not actually a procedure.