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I really hope that one day Google can open source GCL, which so many languages have been inspired by without ever really being as good as it is. They all claim to address pitfalls in GCL but at the end of the day they're just worse than GCL.
Damn network effect, ruining everything :-/
Whatever happened to Puppet, Ansible or Salt frameworks? They were the darling of the devops folks 7 years back.
I really hope that one day Google can open source GCL, which so many languages have been inspired by without ever really being as good as it is. They all claim to address pitfalls in GCL but at the end of the day they're just worse than GCL.
Anecdotally, I've heard a lot of GCL horror stories, and many Xooglers have chosen to create things like Jsonnet or Skycfg (https://github.com/stripe/skycfg) instead.
It really is Haskell for configuration language and undoubtedly superior than YAML.
But for my grug brain, function currying and the lack for loops made it hard.
Functional languages continue to be a great place to steal from but pure functional requires warping your brain quite a bit.
Maybe Tanka is more my style
It's still a massive improvement, but it could be so much better if the typechecker was smarter.
Apparently I'm in the minority that feels config languages should be little more than namespaces and key-value storage and should not be programmable. I would not want to use a bash script as a config file, for example.
Whatever happened to Puppet, Ansible or Salt frameworks? They were the darling of the devops folks 7 years back.
Dhall is a tool to generate configuration such as json, yams, xml. It’s useful if you have *complex* configurations such as a AWS Cloudformation stack or Kubernetes yaml files.
I work on a deployment tooling team. In 2019/2020 we did a deep dive into Dhall vs. Jsonnet^1 for standardizing config and kubernetes templating across my company (Zendesk). We ended up going with Jsonnet (although some Dhall evangelists in the company have kept the dream alive!), which I think is a more approachable language for many, but Dhall has a lot of cool features and good things going for it. Jsonnet is far…
I really hope that one day Google can open source GCL, which so many languages have been inspired by without ever really being as good as it is. They all claim to address pitfalls in GCL but at the end of the day they're just worse than GCL.