miniblog.

After seeing yet another YAML dialect for controlling systems, I think we need a hierarchy of YAML dialect expressiveness. (1) Has its own variable binding system. (2) Supports if statements. (3) Supports loops. (4) Supports function definition. 2 seems to be the most common, but I've seen all of 1-3. Does level 4 exist in the wild yet?

After seeing yet another YAML dialect for controlling systems, I think we need a hierarchy of YAML dialect expressiveness. (1) Has its own variable binding system. (2) Supports if statements. (3) Supports loops. (4) Supports function definition.

I've been playing with GitHub Copilot, and it feels unlike any other completion tool I've used. In a bunch of cases, it can write short snippets that are exactly what I want. (I tested it on a toy interpreter I'm working on. I'm tweaking how statements are represented.)