[gen220]

Take a look at Apache Aurora [1] if you want some inspiration on how to mold python into a config language. I used this system for a few years and mainly agree with the person you're replying to – having a proper programming language to define config is a very nice feature that I miss.

[1]: https://aurora.apache.org/

[malkia]

one of the benefits of starlark (unlike python): "Starlark is suitable for use in highly parallel applications. An application may invoke the Starlark interpreter concurrently from many threads, without the possibility of a data race, because shared data structures become immutable due to freezing." from https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/spec.md - it's not python, you can't do recursion (!) and it's more limited (you can't read a file in bazel, and parse it, you have to make this operation into the graph somehow)

[oblio]

What Python badly needs is Lua-like sandboxing/allowlisting.

You get an interpreter with access to 0 functions by default and can add stuff on top.

Maybe Python already has it, I'm not aware of it.

[mileswjohnson]

Thanks will take a look at.