i hate yaml more than xml and that is saying something. i get looked at strange when i say this loudly, like i'm from mars or whatever. it's like being in a collective hallucination where you know you're right and everybody else is wrong and nothing makes sense anymore.

i've tried to fight this by leading by example with https://dhall-lang.org/ but apparently having a configuration compiler is too much... unless the compiler takes yaml as input, then it's fine.