configuration is code.

And merge conflicts are a bitch when you don’t have unit tests.

Not in this case. There is only a very restricted set of options and these can be interpreted in different ways by different machines that read it.

It's code, but not a program - there is no algorithm. Something resembling an algorithm is on the reader side.

by that logic, programs have no algorithms either, they have to be executed by the hardware.

There is a difference between a series of instructions that maps to machine code nearly directly, and a data format like an image, or factory templates.

The point about algorithms stands - it's not that programs don't contain any because a machine interprets them. I'm referring to the simple fact that program code can be expressed as a flow diagram - but try doing that with a CAD file. You can't, it's declarative in nature, not a series of steps and decisions.

You're trying to say that data isn't code? you haven't tried lisp, have you?

speakig like a true "exe"