pluto VS nickel

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Plutolang - Pluto is a new open-source programming language designed to help developers write cloud applications, making it easier to utilize cloud services. Developers can directly use required resources such as KV databases and message queues in their code based on business needs. Pluto uses static code analysis to obtain the infrastructure resource topology the application depends on and deploys the corresponding resource instances and applications on the specified cloud platform or Kubernetes.

Developers define variables in their code, and Pluto takes care of automatically creating and managing the required cloud resource components based on those variables. This simplifies the process of deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, enabling developers to make better use of the cloud. Read more

I'm currently working on a project with a similar concept. However, at the moment, I am using static program analysis technology to infer infrastructure dependencies. But I am considering using AI to deduce the dependencies and generate the final Infrastructure as Code. So, in the architecture, we can replace the deducer and generator with an implementation using AI, as shown in the diagram.

So, its key features are:

1. domain-specific: designed for conveniently creating and composing derivations. This reason alone already justifies a new language, or an embedded domain-specific language (such as the Guile/Scheme for guix), or a mix of both (Starlark, the build language of Bazel embedded in a restricted Python-variant).

2. purely functional: this ties well into the philosophical backing of Nix the package manager, which aims to be purely functional, also known as hermeticity in other build systems (Bazel).

3. lazily evaluated: similar to other build systems (including Bazel), so that you can build only what you need on demand.

4. dynamically typed: this one is controversial. Being dynamically typed—in other words, not developing a type system—gets Nix out of the door first. But users often complain about the lack of proper types and modularity. There are experiments to address this, such as Nickel (https://github.com/tweag/nickel).

It is understandable that a one-pager may not have space for the whys.

Nickel：Nickel is a straightforward configuration language aimed at automatically generating static configuration files. Essentially, it's akin to JSON with the addition of functions and types.

Also look at nickel which is an evolution of nix. It's my favorite in this space.

nickel-lang.org

https://github.com/tweag/nickel

Or this https://github.com/tweag/nickel

Nickel is a programming language. While HCL is just a configuration format, so not really comparable.

Here's a comparison with similar tools: https://github.com/tweag/nickel#comparison

As for 'providence', I suppose you meant provenance :) it's been delayed because this was less critical for 1.0 to decide on or to implement (as it: it doesn't break backward compatibility in any way to add this feature in the short term), but this is very much on the roadmap: Issue #235. That's a must-have in a language with merging like Nickel.

Have you considered using a different language for templating? this could be a BIG selling point. Some good ones are cue-lang (though I haven't seen support for rust), kcl or nickel-lang.