Language-Server

I would not be the first engineer to joke that those working in devops have become yaml engineers. In small amounts, yaml is not terrible, and provides a human readable way to handle simple configuration. At some point we jumped the shark and now it’s yaml all the way down .

(I have seen a few projects use something like jsonnet for configuration which quickly goes from turtles all the way down to Cthulhu)

I have plenty of bias, but one of the biggest offenders in my opinion is Kubernetes, and it’s one of several reasons I have trouble bring myself to adopt it. It is nearly impossible to escape yaml and even tools like Salt (which I still use) and Ansible are also programmed in yaml.

Last year, I switched to vscode and as part of that, have become interested in how the language server protocol works. As part of my worklog project, I’ve been building various tools and scripts around hugo to manage my notes and day to day tasks, and building a language server to handle some of the formatting tasks may be an interesting way to implement some of the required functionality.