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by kuroikyu 2921 days ago
> JSON + Variables, Conditionals, Arithmetic, Functions, Imports, Error Propagation

Is this going full circle then? JS -> JSON -> JS.

More seriously and like someone already said, to many brackets and quotes for rapid prototyping.
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blacksoil 2921 days ago
I think the use cases are more to generate JSON file, for example, to generate config file based on a template.
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penagwin 2921 days ago
Yes I am confused by this as well. It's a templating language for javascript objects? Isn't javascript a framework/language to create javascript objects? Other then interface with a few APIs (in browser or node.js) it can't do anything else.
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lttlrck 2921 days ago
If you’re using Javascript or have an embedded JavaScript runtime sure use that.

The 1st party bindings are for C, Go and Python; so it a cross-language JSON DSL. And making it a strict DSL has significant advantages.

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