Writing in YAML doesn't feel much better. YMMV but I've been on teams using Pulumi for k8s and the developer experience has been significantly better. I can automate, type check, lint, click through to definitions the same way I do with other typescript.
Pulumi is a young product with many rough edges but it's already been a game changer for me.
{
“/*These are the ports we use”: “*/”,
“ports”: [22, 80, 443]
}"Comment2": "This is the next comment"
or
"Comments": ["Here is one", "Here is another!"]
or
"Comments": { "Name": "This is the name of the customer", "Age": "This is the age (0 to 1000) of the customer" }
or
"Values": [ {"Name":"Age", "Value":"20", "Comment":"This is the age of the customer"}, {"Name":"Name", "Value":"Mr. Foo Bar", "Comment":"This is the name of the customer"} ]
The only limit is your imagination.
[0] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/kubernetes/review-pr...
Deployment("nginx",DeploymentArgs.builder().spec(DeploymentSpecArgs.builder().selector(LabelSelectorArgs.builder().matchLabels(labels).build()).replicas(1).template(PodTemplateSpecArgs.builder().metadata(ObjectMetaArgs.builder().labels(labels).build()).spec(PodSpecArgs.builder().containers(ContainerArgs.builder().name("nginx").image("nginx").ports(ContainerPortArgs.builder().containerPort(80).build()).build()).build()).build()).build()).build());... just fucking don't, generate config in your configuration management tool of choice and then serialize it to YAML. You get all of the advantages (nice to read)and none of the disadvantages (need editor or it is PITA)