Agda doesn't need that restriction, as far as I know. And neither does Dhall. See https://dhall-lang.org/ Neither language is Turing complete. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

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... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Fail to see how this is any different than Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) other than it produces plists too. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Well, Dhall provides something between JSON and a Turing complete language that can make a lot of configuration much quicker to write, if you can hack the functional syntax. http://dhall-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

What are your thoughts on: - https://dhall-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Have a look on Rex - https://rexify.org, in addition to dsl like constructs it is just pure perl. It also doesn't need any dependencies on the managed host, just perl and ssh. Source: over 2 years ago

Since I feel that rex needs more attention, here is a small example from $work using rex. Needed to quickly reconfigure a number of Ubuntu hosts with netplan to use static ip addresses instead of DHCP. Source: about 3 years ago