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typical
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Typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types
Yes! We have comprehensive integration tests that run in the browser to ensure the generated code only uses browser-compatible APIs. Also, the generated code never uses reflection or dynamic code evaluation, so it works in Content Security Policy-restricted environments.
See this section of the README for more info: https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical#javascript-and-typesc...
- GitHub - stepchowfun/typical: Data interchange with algebraic data types. "can be compared to Protocol Buffers and Apache Thrift. ... emphasizing a safer programming style with non-nullable types and exhaustive pattern matching."
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Universal type language!
Protocol Buffers is the most popular one, but there are many others such as Apache Thrift and my own Typical.
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Syntax for defining algebraic data types
Typical uses the terms "struct" and "choice" for products and sums, respectively, although it's not a programming language.
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Download source for all crates that depend on a specific crate?
Yeah fair. I was thinking you could scrape that page with something like scraper.
- Typical Rusty: data interchange with algebraic data types
dhall-lang
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Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
Fail to see how this is any different than Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) other than it produces plists too.
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Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
Kubernetes config is a decent example. I had ChatGPT generate a representative silly example -- the content doesn't matter so much as the structure:
https://gist.github.com/cstrahan/528b00cd5c3a22e3d8f057bb1a7...
Now consider 100s (if not 1000s) of such files.
I haven't given Pkl an in depth look yet, but I can say that the Industry Standard™ of "simple YAML" + string substitution (with delicate, error prone indentation -- since YAML is indentation sensitive) is easily beat by any of:
- https://jsonnet.org/
- https://nickel-lang.org/
- https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html
- https://dhall-lang.org/
- (insert many more here, probably including Pkl)
- Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
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Is Htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
There are underpowered languages / tools, that can only solve a problem for which they are intended poorly. But not all limited tools are like that.
Say, eBPF is prominently not Turing-complete, which allows to guarantee that a eBPF program terminates, and even how soon. Still eBPF is hugely useful in its area.
Or, say, regular expressions are limited to regular languages; in particular, they famously [1] cannot process recursive structures, like trees. Still tools like grep / ag / rg are mightily useful.
Yes, I agree that YAML is underpowered for proper k8s configuration! But it's also too powerful for its own good in other aspects [2]. I wish Google used Dhall [3] or their own purely functional config language (FCL? I already forgot the name) instead of YAML; sadly, they did not.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/223424
[2]: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...
[3]: https://dhall-lang.org/
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10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
Dhall: Dhall is a programmable configuration language that combines features like JSON, functions, types, and import capabilities. Its style leans towards functional programming, so if you're familiar with functional-style languages such as Haskell, you might find Dhall to be quite intuitive.
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Berry is a ultra-lightweight dynamically typed embedded scripting language
I've been thinking along these lines but more 'strongly validated' than statically typed in the sense that you'd be better off being able to load the entire config and then produce a list of problems (and should be able to offer good editor support if done correctly).
Though https://dhall-lang.org/ demonstrates that you can statically type quite a lot of configuration to great advantage, which appears to be programmatically embeddable in multiple languages per https://docs.dhall-lang.org/howtos/How-to-integrate-Dhall.ht...
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What Is the Point of Decidability
> Where practical is in the sense of an engineer (or in their terms, a CS practitioner),
Configuration processing. E.g. I'd like my yamls to be decidable, though I'd settle for guaranteed to halt[1].
[1] https://dhall-lang.org/
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What Is Wrong with TOML?
Maybe you'd like jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/
I find it particularly useful for configurations that often have repeated boilerplate, like ansible playbooks or deploying a bunch of "similar-but" services to kubernetes (with https://tanka.dev).
Dhall is also quite interesting, with some tradeoffs: https://dhall-lang.org/
A few years ago I did a small comparison by re-implementing one of my simpler ansible playbooks: https://github.com/retzkek/ansible-dhall-jsonnet
- Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes
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Home Blog Better configuration languages – A talk about Dhall [video]
And to checkout Dhall: https://dhall-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
Killed by Google - Part guillotine, part graveyard for Google's doomed apps, services, and hardware.
cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue
rkyv - Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
website - Official dahliaOS website
cue - The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration
rust-protobuf - Rust implementation of Google protocol buffers
terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
dimensioned - Compile-time dimensional analysis for various unit systems using Rust's type system.
jsonlogic - Go Lang implementation of JsonLogic
condtype - Choose Rust types at compile-time via constants
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding