kubectl-neat-diff VS github-desktop

Original creator of both of those here. I recommend just generating things out straight with the `jsonnet -m` command, and then doing `kubectl diff` on a PR and apply on merge. Scaled huge amount of infra this way and it’s easily understandable and extensible.

To clean up the diff a bit I recommend using: https://github.com/sh0rez/kubectl-neat-diff

Hope it’s helpful!

Yes that's a common problem with config languages. They're torn between competing priorities:

1. Fast to parse with a small engine, good error messages, safe to evaluate.

2. Powerful, can express config with arbitrary logic.

In Conveyor we try an alternative approach. The config is HOCON, which is a superset of JSON syntax designed for human readability/writability/convenience first and foremost, so it's got a very nice and clean feel to it. You can see an example here:

https://github.com/hydraulic-software/github-desktop/blob/co...

It can be parsed with a normal-sized config library and the errors you get are reasonable.

But then what if you hit the limits of what it can express? We added support for "hashbang includes":

    include "#!script.js"