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civlua
- LAP: Lua Async Protocol
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IBM 360 in UK need a home
http://civboot.org is basically trying to answer exactly this question
- Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
I'm designing a simple dev environment from scratch.
My solution for this is a sandboxed lua for programatic configuration:
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/luck
I can't stand JSON (for many reasons) so I created a serialization format that combines it and CSV for nested objects
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/tso
I wish the industry would standardize on a solution like this. IMO you shouldn't use a "real" language unless you can lock it down to be determinisitic. JSON is supposed to be human readable but fails for lots of real-world data like multi-line strings or lists of records.
CSV is more readable but doesn't supported nested objects.
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Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
Have you tried for any length of time?
For example, there's lots of little places where aligning keywords helps clarify code
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ds/ds.lua#L89
Formatters HATE putting multiple statements on a single line, but when they go it makes it so much easier to parse (for a person)
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LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt
I'm planning on supporting syntax highlighting. I could imagine creating a cxx that does what LuaX is doing, except it would support rendering to the command line as well as html.
Want to team up?
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Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor.
I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really _not that hard_
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ele/README.md
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22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage (2022)
Sam was one of my main inspirations in starting http://civboot.org. Awesome to see he's managed to make his own chip now!
- I'm building a self-bootstrapped embeddedable programming environment in Lua
- Civlua: Self contained software to build a minimalist development environment
hjson
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
HJson https://hjson.github.io seems a nice 'in-between' between YAML and JSON without the indentation-based syntax, so closer to the JSON side but with comments and less quotes.
What I don't really get is why the cloud providers / tooling implementors have never drafted up a "YAML-light" that just throws out the rarely-used headache-inducing syntax elements.
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That's a Lot of YAML
Hjson is very similar to JSON5 but allows quotes to be dropped and can use newlines instead of commas. There are implementations for a lot of different languages, I myself contributed the C++ implementation. I wanted something smaller than Yaml but more lax than JSON, found Hjson to suit my needs perfectly.
https://hjson.github.io/
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The real reason JSON has no comments
JSONs make terrible config files. If you want to use json-like syntax for config, use hjson instead. It's basically json, but changes it slightly so it better matches human expectations.
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The YAML Document from Hell
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YAML and JSON succeeded because they had a clean and predictable, no-nonsense mapping between encoding and object-model after decoding. Probably we should all switch to an almost-yaml format that does away with the peculiarities, and the FANG companies would have the momentum to make that happen.
I personally would like for HJSON (https://hjson.github.io) to see more adoption, but that train has passed...
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Why?
There’s also json-c and Hjson.
What are some alternatives?
berry - A ultra-lightweight embedded scripting language optimized for microcontrollers.
noyaml - A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com
ucode - JavaScript-like language with optional templating
yj - CLI - Convert between YAML, TOML, JSON, and HCL. Preserves map order.
go - The Go programming language
LIBUCL - Universal configuration library parser
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
www.yaml.org - The yaml.org website
Vale - Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/
cuetorials.com - Learn you some CUE for a great good!
dmd - dmd D Programming Language compiler
json2jsii - Generates jsii-compatible structs from JSON schemas