It’s difficult to believe that somebody that has gone to some depth into both yaml and NR still defends yaml is so superior. I believe both can achieve similar things but there are major differences in the how.
It is common sense that if you need to write, let’s say, 50 lines of code in YAML to build something whereas in NR you can achieve the same with 5 lines of code, any human being is less prone to make an error in that scenario. It’s just common sense.
Not only that, but a decent chunck of the things you write in NR are fields that autocomplete.
Not only that but, when there’s an error you instantly spot it in NR following the flows course.
Not only that but, as it has been said, deploys are instant, but that’s not its biggest quality.
Maybe traces has improved something but, how come that, if YAML is so superior, that YAML is constantly adding new features, that have been there in NR from the beggining, to look more like NR? Like better debugging tools and improved templates, choose clause to mimic the branching ability of NR, diagrams for traces, and so on? Why isn’t NR improving to look more like YAML??
it’s also common sense and it has been demonstrated by science that human beings have better retention of images than words. So it’s not like: if you can grasp code you’ll preffer YAML, if you can’t and you are a visual thinker, go NR. Any human being has a better visual understanding of things than a symbolic approach. Get any mnemonic book or just see how diagrams, charts and graphics have been there in every school from childhood. Look how speech therapist work.
If you want to stay in YAML just do it but please don’t insult common sense. Just go YAML.
My mother, who is the most antitech person on the world, a person who struggles with Android, one day dared to play around with a door sensor and a light, and she loved it. She even went as far as to write a transition and some color changes and just loved it.
It’s hard to believe this thread has gone so far, some saying 2 + 2 = 4 and others saying it equals 5.
Anyways, mixing HA with NR they both get a lot better.