[sdboyer]

CUE is currently centered around its CLI, but AIUI, that's not the long-term goal. i read in some CUE issue somewhere that the goal is shifting towards enabling frameworks rather than driving people to the CLI, though i don't have a link.

Our use of CUE in Grafana is an example of framework-style usage. It is a hard requirement that users never have to install the CUE CLI to perform any of our planned CUE-related tasks; rather, the needed tooling is baked into Go packages we export, and things like grafana-cli. (Avoiding a dependency on the CUE CLI also gives us a defense mechanism against breaking changes)