[flexagoon]

> Ah just give me typescript, I do not need to learn a new thing for configuration languages

People who don't know Typescript will still have to learn a new thing in that case, so there isn't really any reason to pick TS over any other existing language

> syntax highlighting in every editor

There is a tree-sitter parser for pkl, so it'll work anywhere where tree-sitter works. And for VSCode and JetBrains stuff, they have official extensions.

[hot_gril]

More people know TS (or JS, close enough) than Pkl, it can be used for more, and it's got better tooling/support. Those are understatements.

[mrudolph22]

TS tooling won’t tell you when your config value violates the constraint “isBetween(0, 100)” or “matches(Regex(…))”. Among other things.

[hot_gril]

A config validator, which can be written in TS, would.

[mrudolph22]

In theory, yes. But I doubt that we’ll see a TS IDE plugin that underlines violated constraints with red squiggles anytime soon. :-)

[hot_gril]

There are IDEs that auto-run unit tests and highlight exceptions thrown in the main or test code, which wouldn't be far off.

[rockwotj]

Agreed, runtime checks can be implemented in typescript - that’s the beauty of it