rcl VS pkl

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.

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

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'

Pkl Official Documentation

Very cool!

You might want to consider also publishing a schema for it too, as a Pkl package. The package can simply be published as a GitHub release (see details in this post here: https://github.com/apple/pkl/discussions/85#discussioncommen...)

At some point, we'll publish more documentation about this, including instructions for how to build your own language binding.

And, it's only a sub-process right now, but we plan on also providing a C library as another way to bind to Pkl.

But if you want to learn more about how this works, feel free to connect with us on GitHub! https://github.com/apple/pkl/discussions