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		direwolf20 84 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams JSON or YAML imply a buildkite DSL as there's no standard JSON or YAML format for build scripts

nickkell 84 days ago [–]

I assume by DSL they mean some custom templating language built on top, for things like iterating and if-conditions. If it's plain JSON/YAML you can produce that using any language you wish.

direwolf20 84 days ago | [–]

I don't think you understood it yet: the JSON or YAML is a DSL

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