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I've checked out Dhall very superficially, but it seems to be aimed at being a strict language to generate YAML and JSON, so IMO it has different goals than Jacl. E.g., an empty li…

I am fed up with config languages where indentation matters or which require strange syntax to support a few levels of nested maps or require a manual to write a few lines of confi…

Roaring bitmaps is quite good at compressing bits. Just as an example: Say, most monkeys have the same number of bananas. Pilosa doesn't store it as MonkeyCount bits, but just a fe…

This is very similar to how Pilosa saves integers. https://www.pilosa.com/docs/latest/data-model/#bsi-range-enc...

Pilosa uses roaring bitmaps to store the data. Roaring bitmaps are compressed and performing bit operations on them is very efficient since they don't require uncompressing the who…