The Most Elegant Configuration Language

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  1. organist

    Control all your tooling from a single console

    You might be interested in nickel (https://nickel-lang.org/), which is a modern take on configuration management based on the experience of Nix/NixOS configurations: purely functional configuration, built-in validation (types & contracts), reusable (functions, modules, defaults), and in addition exports to Yaml, Json, etc.

    To integrate nickel with nix, see how organist (https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist) does DevShell management.

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  3. guix

    Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead (by guix-mirror)

    And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/

  4. tree.d

    Tree - simple fast compact user-readable binary-safe extensible structural format

    This, for a number of reasons, reminds me of the Tree format, see https://hackernoon.com/tree-ast-which-crushes-json-xml-yaml-... and https://github.com/nin-jin/tree.d.

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