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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by dymk on Thursday July 04, 2019 @02:57PM (#20356897)
It's not even in the same solution space. I can't replace my YAML with Dhall and consume it directly. I have to now depend on the converter to go from Dhall -> YAML/JSON. All I did was add another layer of complexity into my config.

Maybe you'll benefit from the added abstraction; I see the value in having "typed" configs that are semi-scriptable but not turing complete. But it's in no way a "replacement".

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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by Jeff_Brown on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:14PM (#20357000)
> All I did was add another layer of complexity

If that was in fact all you had done, it would not be worth it. But it might remove a ton of boilerplate from your YAML.

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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by LoSboccacc on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:56PM (#20357719)
or, one can eliminate boilerplate in code so that configuration stays simple and the logic in the application

I mean what's the role of configuration? is so that installer can tune or match environments. if configuration becomes as hard as your program to understand then installation won't ever scale

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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by StreamBright on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:35PM (#20357114)
>> I can't replace my YAML with Dhall and consume it directly.

Sorry I don't get it. Why not? Because your favorite languages do not support it?

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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by dymk on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:24PM (#20357479)
How many languages have an Dhall implementation? One?
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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by nightkoder on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:51PM (#20357685)
As far as I know Clojure, Haskell, Ruby, Rust in various stages of completion..
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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by singpolyma3 on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:38PM (#20366986)
Both Clojure and Eta bindings should allow really anything on the JVM to consume directly.
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Re:Dhall: A Non-Repetitive Alternative to YAML by codebje on Thursday July 04, 2019 @04:52PM (#20357687)
Six or seven, or thereabouts.
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