Why not write recipes in code too?

Or a screenplay?

(Because there are better formats for them)

Recipes absolutely should be written in code. If I could view source, copy the recipe yaml, and paste into my personal recipe manager app, it would be much more convenient.

Screenplays... are already written in code, partly. If they weren't, they'd include quotation marks and "she said" after every line.

I think this is too loose of a definition of code...

Yaml isn't really code in the same sense as python is, and Shakespeare didn't write in code in the same sense that the diagrams in this article are.

Well, you're right about that, but then they were your examples.

I think the counter-point to that would be that if you're writing infrastructure as code, and your architects are using a specific language anyways (Python in this case), it makes more sense for data governance and editing reasons to just keep things in the existent ecosystem and not worry about having to procure another license.

Vs. Cooking or Writing which aren't coding practices unto themselves.

How about music as code…Sonic-Pi would like to offer a counterpoint :)

https://sonic-pi.net/

You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python (or other programming languages), a language like YAML or JSON can be learned in minutes by just about anyone.