dhall VS ShellCheck

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If you mean installing Dhall's dependencies (https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/blob/master/dhal...), those aren't too crazy, but they're definitely not all "beginner level". Template Haskell in particular is quite heavyweight.

Ok, lets be specific. Lets write a comment to explain this function:

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/blob/master/dhal...

I haven't tried it but apparently you can compile to Nix from Dhall:

> You can use this compiler to program Nix using the Dhall language. This package targets people who wish Nix had a type system.

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/tree/master/dhal...

If the problem is the syntax and people wants some other format that compiles to nix, there's dhall

https://dhall-lang.org/

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/tree/master/dhal...

https://www.haskellforall.com/2017/01/typed-nix-programming-...

Dhall is a generic config language with some programming capabilities (but not turing complete) that can compile to json, yaml, and other formats, like in this instance nix.

For my GSoC project, I built from scratch the dhall-csv package on the Dhall Haskell implementation Github Repository. Said package provides two executables, dhall-to-csv (which converts Dhall files into CSV files) and csv-to-dhall (which converts CSV files into Dhall files). It also provides Haskell libraries with the functions that translate bidirectionally between Dhall and CSV.

> If you add constraints (like not being able to feed the program to itself as is done in the halting problem and not allowing unbounded loops) then it is possible to determine if a program will terminate or not.

Dhall is a good example - https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell .

See also https://dhall-lang.org/

That just seems like an even greater nightmare to me. Soon you would have to learn to read and understand a custom program in a Turing-complete language for each and every installation.

The proper solution is a DSL, just a better DSl. Or perhaps a DSL embedded in something like dhall <https://dhall-lang.org/>, but definitely not a general-purpose programming language.

ShellCheck is a static analysis tool that detects bugs and issues in shell scripts.

I never thought of the idea of printing out a stack trace and a logging function is an example of such a good idea that is so obvious that I didn't think of it :-)

I use -e sometimes but I really dislike scripts that rely on it for all error handling instead of handling errors and logging them.

https://www.shellcheck.net/

^^ this tool has proven very useful for avoiding some of the most silly mistakes and making my scripts better. If you're maintaining scripts with other people then it is a great way of getting people to fix things without directly criticising them.

Unfortunately, this did mean that configuration began to sprawl. At this point, I had configurations not just for Vite (shared with Vitest) and tsc, but also for Prettier, ESLint and even ShellCheck. Many of these files had shared settings that needed to match each other. This was somewhat manageable, until Vite was also in the mix.

Shellcheck is another useful one (linter for shell scripts)

https://www.shellcheck.net/

There's now an issue for it https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues/3088

ShellCheck

It's been so long since I used it seriously I couldn't tell you.

There's over 1000 open issues on the GitHub repo, and over 100 contain "false positive". I recognize several of these at first glance.

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

Reminder of the handy ShellCheck:

* https://www.shellcheck.net

Even if you don't follow or agree with its advice, it can be a handy and quick second opinion / sanity check.

If you're only occasionally writing shell scripts, Amber may not be a priority for you. In such cases, linting tools like ShellCheck could be more beneficial. However, if you find yourself frequently writing shell scripts, to the point where you're considering Python or Ruby for better re-usability, then Amber is definitely worth your attention.