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Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For edge cases where you need the power of a programming language in your config system, use something like PKL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Okay, that's pretty cool not going to lie. Granted, I'm not entirely sold on the idea of having a config format that's aimed at generating other config formats.

That feels like (in most cases) a recipe for things getting out of sync between the latest version of the PKL and e.g. the JSON