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DevOps integrates and automates the work of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) as a means for improving and shortening the systems development life cycle.

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Hi DevOps, how do you think your ideal programming language would look like? I mean a language in which you would write pipeline logic, like Python or Bash, not define pipeline steps itself, like YAML.

I think for me it would have:

  • very clean and readable syntax
  • immutable state by default
  • strong typing
  • strong tooling and IDE support
  • focus on DevOps-need things, like JSON and files manipulation
  • absence of danger things like pointers
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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The post doesn't say "imperative", it just differentiates between defining pipeline steps and defining the logic within a step.

...also, TCL? I haven't used it for ops, but my memory of tcl/tk is extremely negative.

...also also: a core part of a build, CI, or, CD pipeline is almost always invoking binaries to run a command. That's why shell scripts are so ubiquitous in pipeline-logic: invoking binaries is what they're for. And it's very difficult to do that a declarative way: Make comes close, but it's difficult to track any side-effects that aren't "update these files", and a huge amount of CI/CD is no longer just "update a file".

[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, that makes much more sense; thanks.