I saw the dependency DSL example in the new docs thanks for

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I saw the dependency DSL example in the new docs thanks for sharing <https docs dagster io examples dep dsl> Question the example states `This is not the blessed file format nor is it our recommendation for doing things ` Curious from the dagster team why declaring dependencies in this way isn t recommended thanks

max · Answer

Hi < aqm>

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I guess it really depends who s authoring pipelines I think it s easy to imagine analyst personas who are much more comfortable in YAML than in Python working with a library of solids for whom this or something similar is the right approach

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I don t think we yet have enough experience to say of any particular YAML format that it s the right way to build a system like that and we haven t yet brought anything into the monorepo to support this appraoch

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But I think there are a couple of people doing stuff like this currently

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Python is maybe better in principle because more flexible but obviously depending on the userbase that has its pitfalls too

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+1