WTH Why are scripts not in script language

Month of "What the heck?!"
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I get it, that YAML is the standard for configuration in Home Assistant. Personally I hate YAML, but love HA, so I’m using it nevertheless.

However, in one place HA would benefit a lot by using other language - scripts. Would be great to write your scripts in other language (e.g. Python or JavaScript). Evaluating such scripts shouldn’t be a problem and the syntax will be just standard Python/JS syntax (service calls etc. could be exported as functions).
We can keep YAML support for easy UI programming, but I would really like to see also more programmatic approach.

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You have the option of using pyscript or Appdaemon. For people unfamiliar with Python using YAML to construct script “recipes” is far simpler.

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In addition to Tom’s suggestion, you can use the Python Scripts integration for basic things that don’t require extra imports.

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I really don’t know why I’ve missed that Python Scripts integration! Would be great to have a link in the scripts screen “if you want to program script using Pythonm, see [link] this integration”.

I still feel like it should become just an another tab in the window, so user can choose “easy for non-programmers” or “advanced (python lang)” mode. Sure, it’s not something super urgent, but a really nice-to-have for anyone who is familiar with any programming language (Yaml is not suited for programming)

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Are you kidding me? Python? Syntax is crazy with that one dubbel space and so on.
Then we can use c# instead

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C# automations were possible at one point:

However the developer stopped supporting this. If you want it badly enough you can fork it.

Home Assistant will never support C# as an automation language natively. It’s just not the target userbase.