Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration

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Jsonnet

Kubernetes config is a decent example. I had ChatGPT generate a representative silly example -- the content doesn't matter so much as the structure: https://gist.github.com/cstrahan/528b00cd5c3a22e3d8f057bb1a75ea61 Now consider 100s (if not 1000s) of such files. I haven't given Pkl an in depth look yet, but I can say that the Industry Standard™ of "simple YAML" + string substitution (with delicate, error prone indentation -- since YAML is indentation sensitive) is easily beat by any of: - https://jsonnet.org/ - https://nickel-lang.org/ - https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html - https://dhall-lang.org/ - (insert many more here, probably including Pkl).

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Dhall Configuration Language

Kubernetes config is a decent example. I had ChatGPT generate a representative silly example -- the content doesn't matter so much as the structure: https://gist.github.com/cstrahan/528b00cd5c3a22e3d8f057bb1a75ea61 Now consider 100s (if not 1000s) of such files. I haven't given Pkl an in depth look yet, but I can say that the Industry Standard™ of "simple YAML" + string substitution (with delicate, error prone indentation -- since YAML is indentation sensitive) is easily beat by any of: - https://jsonnet.org/ - https://nickel-lang.org/ - https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html - https://dhall-lang.org/ - (insert many more here, probably including Pkl).

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GNU Guix

> So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use. That exists since 1960. It's called LISP. The e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/ uses with great success, the Guile Scheme dialect of LISP, to be precise. And FYI the "framework" is: <pre><code> $ ls --human-readable --size $(readlink $(which guile)).

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