[rewgs]

I’ve written a huge number of shell and Python scripts to deal with these sorts of things. But I recently started learning Go and had a lightbulb moment: why not write a cross-platform tool that does this? I really like Neovim’s approach of using Lua for configs, both for the core app as well as for plugins, so I too am taking that approach.

(Yes, I’m aware that Ansible and Nix exist. I like them. This is really just a hobby project for learning Go).

So far it’s going great. The Neovim-inspired approach of essentially viewing applications and other incidental configurations (like ssh keys) as “plugins to your core system” feels like the right way to solve this problem. And given that Lua can exist as a simple YAML/TOML/JSON-esque collection of fields, but can also drop into proper functions or even quasi-OOP behavior, writing your own “presets” for a given machine config is also trivial. And Go is proving to be a fantastic language for running it all. Really excited to see where this project leads.

[cweagans]

Do you have this published somewhere? I might be interested in collaborating if you're interested :)