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Just Another Configuration Language
- ytklx 7y agoI am fed up with config languages where indentation matters or which require strange syntax to support a few levels of nested maps or require a manual to write a few lines of config. I was dreaming of a config language which is as simple as JSON but also has a few niceties so it's not a pain to read/write it. This is what I came up with. The golang implementation of the language is here: https://github.com/yuce/go-jacl https://github.com/yuce/go-jacl The language grammar is in ANTLR4, so it should be easy to add support for other languages. Hopefully this is useful to someone else.
- Vosporos 7y agoAccording to you, what would be the differences with Dhall?
- ytklx 7y agoI've checked out Dhall very superficially, but it seems to be aimed at being a strict language to generate YAML and JSON, so IMO it has different goals than Jacl. E.g., an empty list is [] : List Natural in Dhall vs [] in Jacl. Dhall has A LOT of features. It looks more like a programming language than a configuration language. Since its goals are different, Dhall lacks a few features of Jacl like optional commas and underscore support in numbers. etc.