nestedtext
starlark
nestedtext | starlark | |
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335 | 2,238 | |
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7.9 | 4.1 | |
7 days ago | 3 days ago | |
Python | Starlark | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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nestedtext
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The yaml document from hell
As /u/astatine said, an excellent but under-recognized alternative syntax for configuration files is NestedText, where everything is a string unless the ingesting code says otherwise, and there is no escaping needed ever.
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Yaml: First Class Citizen?
I don't know what traits from markdown you'd hope for, but for a relatively obscure but technically excellent format, you can check out NestedText.
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A Nigthtmare called YML
I recently came to appreciate and favor an alternative format called NestedText. Like YAML, indentation is used for structure, so like YAML, you may hate it.
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nt2: a CLI converter between NestedText and JSON, YAML, or TOML
I recently discovered NestedText, and really appreciate the design. To me, it hits the nail on the head where projects like strictyaml and hjson come very close.
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YAML: It's Time to Move On
I'm glad to see people experimenting with alternative document/object representations, but this one might be a hard sell: based on the README[1], it only has Python, Zig and Janet implementations so far. One of the nice things about YAML (and JSON, TOML, etc.) is that they have decently mature C, C++, or Rust libraries that other languages bind to.
[1]: https://github.com/KenKundert/nestedtext
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My two favorite things share the same love as me for YAML!
NestedText
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Json alternatives
NestedText was left out. Has the feel of YaML, without all the complexity and user traps.
- KenKundert/nestedtext ... Human Readable and Writable Data Interchange Format
starlark
- (The) Starlark Language
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Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
The implementations and users page mentioned above:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/users.md
- Language design of Starlark (compared to Python)
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
Starlark: Starlark is a language for describing build transformations, inspired by Python, but with features that make it suitable for embedding in software like Bazel. It can be used for configuration generation due to its capability for deterministic evaluation and expressing complex build transformations.
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How Big Should a Programming Language Be?
In the design of Starlark (https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark), I often had to push back against new feature requests to keep the language simple. I explicitly listed simplicity as a design goal.i
Of course, the scope of the language is not the same as general purpose languages, but there's always pressure from the users to add more things. I also think many people underestimate the cost of adding new features: it's not just about adding the code in every compiler/interpreter, specifying every edge-case in a spec, updating all the tooling for the language and writing tutorials; it's also a cost on everyone who will have to read any of the code.
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Launch HN: Moonrepo (YC W23) – Open-source build system
one of the benefits of starlark (unlike python): "Starlark is suitable for use in highly parallel applications. An application may invoke the Starlark interpreter concurrently from many threads, without the possibility of a data race, because shared data structures become immutable due to freezing." from https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/spec.md - it's not python, you can't do recursion (!) and it's more limited (you can't read a file in bazel, and parse it, you have to make this operation into the graph somehow)
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When to use Bazel?
You can do the same in Bazel which uses Starlark for its BUILD files. Starlark is a dialect of Python so it makes it super easy to work with.
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[P] Docker alternative for AI/ML
Make sense. We do not use Python actually, the build language is starlark, which is the config lang used by bazel. https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
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The Dhall Configuration Language
Have you seen Starlark? It's not too far from that, but safer in a number of ways: https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark
- What change should Python 4 bring, in your opinion?
What are some alternatives?
strictyaml - Type-safe YAML parser and validator.
yaml-reference-parser
sublime-json5 - JSON5 support for Sublime Text
dhall - Maintainable configuration files
dhall-kubernetes - Typecheck, template and modularize your Kubernetes definitions with Dhall
skycfg - Skycfg is an extension library for the Starlark language that adds support for constructing Protocol Buffer messages.
starlark-go - Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files
openapi-python-client - Generate modern Python clients from OpenAPI
jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming