Your ideal DevOps programming language? (feddit.org)

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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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[-] dbx12@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

I personally like golang a lot for small-ish scripting and programming. It has strong typing and few foot guns (e.g. bash with the weird way arrays are handled, implicit splitting of array items etc). Downside is it needs to be compiled up front and is basically a black box from the CI configuration's POV (you can inspect the source of a circleci orb or GitHub action for example).

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