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TIL JSON is a programming language.

Just pray you never have to develop in YAML like many of us...

Some of y'all are too young to have heard of XSLT and should be profoundly grateful

I'm young but I had the misfortune of working with it once (when interacting with some Austrian VAT authority APIs, some of which were SOAP and XSLT still in 2022 lol)

Indeed grateful I don't have to touch it again, but I suppose ChatGPT would be huge help these days for writing boilerplate magic incantations.

Programming in YAML (for Home Assistant automations) was quite... something.

I very quickly switched all of my logic over to vanilla JavaScript in Node-RED and haven't looked back.

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