But you see, it's because of the environment that that it's not as economical viable.
Green sources are becoming more and more cost effective because of lots of tax money went into them because people care about the environment.
Eventually there shall be plenty of more green alternatives that are more economically interesting than coal, but they only reached that place in refinement because environmental focused measures took place.
Both Fortune and misfortune can happen in the middle. This doesn't mean to stop practicing/learning/improving, it's just life. Be aware of these things, and look for opportunities. Also, remenber that because of this, some very skillful person might be underperforming just because of a bad day, be nice to them.
There are declarative general purpose programing languages.
That data you are talking about does need to be debugged, like Helm charts and pipeline definitions. Sure data is better, but config is code, not data.
Emacs is configured using Lisp. Because of that it is amazingly configurable.
XMonad uses Haskell, which gives types to avoid lots of error cases.
The thing is providing an actually programming language doesn't remove anything specially if the same config can be written as cleanly.
And you would avoid "YAML templates for creating YAML", when you actually need to process some data (even if it's just for pre/suffix creation in names). Secrets retrieval is another thing that you also need to do and template.
Also, YAML is a terrible to parse language, with can give out weird error cases. Other languages compilers/interpreters are more mature.
And ofc, if you provide SDKs for your IaC tool, you should be able to use the language that your developers are more familiar with. Taking advantage of the good practices their are used to. Don't limit with "declarative languages". Use a programing language that make more sense, and leave data languages for data.
Thank god trends like Pulumi and the new AWS sdk is emerging.
General purpose programing languages are getting more expressive by the day, why do we use data serialization languages instead for configs? it doesn't make any sense.
Well, the fear he was talking about is just using Napster as an example. This piracy still exists, and as he said, the tech improved so much that you can easily illegally share an album.
What actually stopped wide-spread music piracy, was easy to use legal solutions like Spotify.
It's as Gabe Newel said, to fight piracy, just provide a better service.