Why in god’s name would programmers of all people resist letting computers handle “systematically [applying] simple rules” for us automatically?
[edit] naming, yes. That’s important. Static types are enormously important—machine-checkable documentation is the best sort. Comments are excellent if names and types aren’t enough. Separate documentation if all of those fail. Where my braces go or tabs-v-spaces or what have you? Not so much, but again, maybe it’s because we write different languages.
things
.where($"key" === lit(key))
.select("value")
.as[String]
.repartition(N1, $"value")
.flatMap(new ThingIterator(_))
.repartition(N2)
.write
.parquet(
s"s3a://bucket/things/key=$key")
That’s much closer to being “the way infrastructure operates” than formatting is.
I suppose 100% of IAC is right out, then.