rcl vs pkl-go

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rcl		pkl-go
	Project
4	Mentions	2
137	Stars	238
-	Growth	5.9%
9.9	Activity	7.5
11 days ago	Latest Commit	19 days ago
Rust	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

rcl

Posts with mentions or reviews of rcl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-03.

How to Use JSON Path
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024

Frustration with HCL is why I wrote RCL (it now has a website, https://rcl-lang.org). It can generate HCL's json form for use with Terraform, and it has functions and sensible list comprehensions.
RCL: A Reasonable Configuration Language
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024
Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023

I have that same problem, the advanced features I use too little to remember. Then I started working on a configuration language that should have a non-surprising syntax (json superset, mostly inspired by Python, Rust, Nix). And it turns out, this works well as a query language for querying json documents. https://github.com/ruuda/rcl Here is an example use case: https://fosstodon.org/@ruuda/111120049523534027

pkl-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkl-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.

HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
https://github.com/apple/pkl-go/blob/v0.6.0/.circleci/config... seems to imply it's "curl && chmod" so maybe you're thinking of developing pkl itself?
I happened to have a container that I am certain contains no Java and it fired right up
```
  $ docker run -it --rm --entrypoint=/usr/bin/env public.ecr.aws/aws-cli/aws-cli:2.15.38 bash -c 'curl -fsSLO https://github.com/apple/pkl/releases/download/0.25.3/pkl-linux-aarch64; chmod a+x pkl-linux-aarch64; ./pkl-linux-aarch64 --help'
```
Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024

sadly the Go implementation is bloated as hell:
https://github.com/apple/pkl-go/blob/main/go.sum
no thank you.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rcl and pkl-go you can also consider the following projects:

gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool

jaq - A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity

fastgron - High-performance JSON to GRON (greppable, flattened JSON) converter

wasmer - 🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten

jq - Command-line JSON processor

murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

fq - jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats