GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

Re:GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool by skybrian on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:55PM (#18234332)

Based on the README, hcl looks like a small and fairly sane extension to JSON. What do you dislike about it?

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Re:GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool by scrollaway on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:26PM (#18234504)

Here's an example of a nested function call from one of my infrastructure files:

    public_key = "${file("${path.root}/../ssh/id_rsa.pub")}"

Is this terraform's implementation, or hcl's? HCL has to implement that syntax somehow, right?

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Re:GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool by skybrian on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:06PM (#18234697)

It looks like they have an "interpolation syntax" that works with either JSON or hcl. I guess that's a separate but related mini-language?

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Re:GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool by scrollaway on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:09PM (#18234715)

Hmmmm, does that make it pre-processing on hcl? If so I guess that makes a little more sense.

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