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by em-bee
1015 days ago
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fully agree, especially with the second paragraph. even as a developer, i want a simple DSL that lets me declare things and not twist the data structures into code. and especially as a programmer, if code is needed for more complex structures, i want that to be done in a real programming language. so i am favoring the two products approach, or maybe a language with a well designed syntax for data, where the relationship between the two is like that of JSON and javascript. |
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We have JSON support for literal data, pure data
But you can also interleave code and data in what turns out to be a very Lisp-y fashion, which is useful for configuration
https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.17.0/doc/hay.html
Slogan: We're adding the missing declarative part to shell, called Hay (Hay Ain't YAML)
That is, most YAML configs are just nested key-value pairs, where some values are shell snippets ... So I think it makes sense to add declarative data to shell instead!