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cson
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The Norway Problem
I prefer JSON over YAML because I spend more time confused and burned by the problems caused by it.
I understand that people don't like directly use JSON because it's not very friendly: no comments, no multi-line string, etc.
A great alternative IMHO is cson[0]. It's like JSON to JavaScript but for CoffeeScript (though nobody talks about it nowadays). It has indentation-based syntax, comments, and multiline string which usually don't need to escape. The advantage is it's close enough to JSON which is the canonical format that everybody can agree on nowadays. For YAML and TOML there are too many visual part-aways from JSON.
Or just create a JSON variant that enables comments and the backtick multiline string from JavaScript.
[0] https://github.com/bevry/cson
cue
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Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application
Where `kube.cue` sets reasonable defaults (e.g. image is /). The "cluster" runs on a mini PC in my basement, and I have a small Digital Ocean VM with a static IP acting as an ingress (networking via Tailscale). Backups to cloud storage with restic, alerting/monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Caddy/Tailscale for local ingress.
[1] https://www.talos.dev/
[2] https://cuelang.org/
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Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
I've been somewhat surprised that CUE bills itself as "tooling friendly" and doesn't yet have a language server- the number one bit of tooling most devs use for a particular language.
I'm assuming it's becaus CUE is still unstable?
Anyway, if others are interested in CUE's LSP work, I think https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/issues/142 is the issue to subscribe to
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
This is where I usually pitch in with "Have your heard of CUELang, our lord and savior?": https://cuelang.org/
- Not turing complete
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
CUE: The core problem CUE solves is "type checking", which is mainly used in configuration constraint verification scenarios and simple cloud native configuration scenarios.
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Lua is a viable alternative for JSON
If you really want executable configurations please consider a newer language like https://dascript.org or https://cuelang.org which provide better type safety.
1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38030778
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Writerside – a new technical writing environment from JetBrains
Markdown and XML are nice, but what about more advanced documentation formats like OpenAPI? For one recent project, I set up automatic generation of the OpenAPI docs from (much more compact and flexible) CUE definitions (https://cuelang.org/) - which has the bonus of also being able to test the API against the definitions. JetBrains has a CUE plugin, but it's really barebones (doesn't even support jumping from the usage of a schema to its definition). Of course the possibilities when generating docs are endless (just think of the various syntaxes for doc comments, embedding examples/tests in source code etc.)...
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Show HN: Config-file-validator – CLI tool to validate all your config files
It doesn't include validators for TOML and INI, but if you're doing JSON and YAML, I would take a look at using or building upon CUE (https://cuelang.org/). It is a different take on schema definition (plus more), and is surprising terse and powerful model.
- That's a Lot of YAML
- An INI Critique of TOML
- What Is Wrong with TOML?
What are some alternatives?
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
strictyaml - Type-safe YAML parser and validator.
ron - Rusty Object Notation
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
edn - Extensible Data Notation
starlark-rust - A Rust implementation of the Starlark language
cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
bip39 - BIP-39 tools using Node and implemented in Coffeescript
jsonnet-libs - Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries