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Seems like an interesting language, but I'm very disappointed that my first attempt to view example code took 5 clicks. The most important part of any programming language website is a short example snippet: put it above the fold on the front page!
How does this compare to jsonnet or hocon? Why would someone choose this over generating configuration files with a “scripting” language like python?
Both Jsonnet and CUE have their origin in GCL internally at Google. Jsonnet is basically GCL, as I understand it. But CUE is a whole new thing.
my time at Google has made me hate GCL so much.
I was going to say, this looks a lot like GCL. Dynamic scope, recursive lookup in parent scopes, templates [1], everything. GCL is neat and all, but I'd almost rather write my job configs by building thin python or lisp scripts to emit json or protos. 1: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
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So it’s a google branded yaml? Let’s raise a glass to our blue eyed comrades who’ll adopt this fully, only for google to decide in 2-3 years to completely and aggressively kill it again for no apparent reason.
Pardon for slamming my ignorance down on the table here: I know Google has a tendency of killing products but I’m not familiar with many of their engineering tooling being similarly sunset with comparable frequency. Any named examples? I’m sure there are-and likely they just elude me at present, maybe seeing their names will jog the memory probably?
This might cause confusion with cuesheets, which already exist and have the same extension: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)
Seems like an interesting language, but I'm very disappointed that my first attempt to view example code took 5 clicks. The most important part of any programming language website is a short example snippet: put it above the fold on the front page!
I couldn't find anything after like a minute of searching. Unless we're counting the gif that slowly shows you an example project letter by letter.
The post title is misleading. This is a more of 20% project, not an officially Google supported one.
There's no difference.
my time at Google has made me hate GCL so much.
I was going to say, this looks a lot like GCL. Dynamic scope, recursive lookup in parent scopes, templates [1], everything. GCL is neat and all, but I'd almost rather write my job configs by building thin python or lisp scripts to emit json or protos. 1: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
This is what Facebook does: Python emitting JSON.