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Fair enough. I should have said "general purpose language" rather than "real", which makes for flame-bait.
by leg100 8y ago
Fair enough. I should have said "general purpose language" rather than "real", which makes for flame-bait.
- ithkuil 8y agoI once built a mandelbrot fractal renderer which emitted a data-URL encoded PNG string to stdout in BCL (a spiritual predecessor of Jsonnet @ Google). Yeah, I know what you mean. It lacks generic input/output, you cannot read write arbitrary files and perform arbitrary network requests etc. I do like that restriction in the context of managing configuration systems, because it allows you to build hermetic evaluations. With kubecfg we added the ability to import from URLs, which I wish was available out of the box in jsonnet.