Photoshop has been used for that for decades. Why not ban Photoshop?
>With Cue, I personally think it is uglier than TOML and Dhall and only slightly less reader-ambiguous than YAML I think you're missing the main point of these languages. YAML, TOML, JSON are all basically the same…
>But then, why not use the language you're already using for the rest of your project, or a bash script to export some variables? Well, for same reason, say, why people would use a javascript framework to build a webapp…
Couple of contenders: - Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) - simpler syntax and less concepts to learn, just an extension of JSON. But no type checking. An open source offspring of Google's internal config language…
There's also another competing json templating project from google in the works. Doesn't seem to be production ready yet, but it's open sourced already - https://github.com/cuelang/cue
Photoshop has been used for that for decades. Why not ban Photoshop?
>With Cue, I personally think it is uglier than TOML and Dhall and only slightly less reader-ambiguous than YAML I think you're missing the main point of these languages. YAML, TOML, JSON are all basically the same…
>But then, why not use the language you're already using for the rest of your project, or a bash script to export some variables? Well, for same reason, say, why people would use a javascript framework to build a webapp…
Couple of contenders: - Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/) - simpler syntax and less concepts to learn, just an extension of JSON. But no type checking. An open source offspring of Google's internal config language…
There's also another competing json templating project from google in the works. Doesn't seem to be production ready yet, but it's open sourced already - https://github.com/cuelang/cue