HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages

Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by ruuda on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @06:11PM (#40137960)

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.

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Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by Coryodaniel on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:09PM (#40138883)

This is tight!

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Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by nikolay on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:44PM (#40139147)

Lovely! HCL is a pain and barely improves. Thank you!

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Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by mdaniel on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @12:16AM (#40140511)

Do you have any plans for an IJ plugin? I saw there are already quite a few grammars in the repo, so kudos for thinking that far ahead

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Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by ruuda on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @02:31AM (#40141315)

Yes, at some point. It's the IDE I use myself so I definitely want one, but it's also one of the hardest ones to write a plugin for, so I haven't gotten to it yet.

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Re:HCL: Toolkit for Structured Configuration Languages by kunley on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:20AM (#40145436)

Hey that's cool!

I also wrote BCL (https://github.com/wkhere/bcl) out of frustration with HCL :) (I didn't realize when starting it that the name "BCL" has some bad press for googlers though)

Your project looks very interesting, although we took quite different routes I guess, plus mine is at its quite early stage.

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