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Yes, it’s not perfect.

Still, totally fine for pretty much everything I’ve needed it for.

Maybe I'm just not that ambitious and haven’t hit any of the corner cases pointed out in the article.

Have been using it as a html forms definition language for 7 years - with great success.

So, yes, maybe not so great, but also not too bad.

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> Still, totally fine for pretty much everything I’ve needed it for.

Try writing non-trivial multi-line bash snippets for Gitlab CI in yaml. These change your opinion very fast.

1. “ writing non-trivial multi-line bash snippets for Gitlab CI” sounds intimidating even without the “in yaml” part. I don’t want to do it.

2. “In yaml” could be a fun way to end all kinds of sentences describing challenging tasks ;)

You don't want do do it, erm, but maybe people need to do it, because, huh, it's not an unreasonable thing to be put in the CI, right?

Every CI project I've maintained in the last 10 years has dispatched the logic to a script stored in version control.

YMMV.

Other part of the world might not like too many levels of indirection, and would consider their approach a good practice.

I have to look them up every. time. but YAML has a sigil for multi-line strings and lets you choose between strip/preserve newlines/leading whitespace.

I still don't like YAML though

because a sane people would delegate the task to a separated script instead.

I wrote some non-trivial multi-line bash snippets for Gitlab CI in yaml and didn't find anything annoying. Any example that gave you problem?

I would suggest never doing that, because it makes it impossible, or at least very difficult, to:

1. Lint the code using ShellCheck, which IMO is essential for any shell

2. Run and test that code locally, or anywhere outside of the CI tool

It’s only marginally less convenient to externalise the code into a .sh file and load it in CI.

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