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Having used Aspire during pre-release, it's so nice as a developer to be able to work on deployments in a real programming language where I can set breakpoints and right-click down into the code to see what's going on.

I'm definitely never going back to working in opaque yaml-variants that can't make up their mind about whether they want to be a programming language or not.

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People were already doing that with PowerShell and as you'd expect, from a very complicated language which lets you do many things in very complicated ways, absolutely nothing good came out of it.

Then people started to migrate to YAML, because although it's tedious, it's actually very dumb and the declarative nature of it keeps things very very simple. Sure the domain it is applied to is complex but infra will always be complex.

It looks like we are just going in circles. Now people think that using a complex language to build complex infrastructures is a good thing again, until they use it in anger then get burnt and then they will arrive at the next YAML variant in 10 years.

> It looks like we are just going in circles.

That's what our industry does :)

That's how innovation happens.

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