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It's still early, but incredibly exciting. I personally am betting on CUE as the "winner" in this space. Its creator is enormously credible. Most of the other c

by zapita 7y ago

It's still early, but incredibly exciting. I personally am betting on CUE as the "winner" in this space. Its creator is enormously credible. Most of the other configuration languages in this space are directly inspired by his work. So for him to work on something new is significant. I am also impressed by the clip at which CUE is improving, and how useful it already is, in spite of its relatively young age. It reminds me of Python or Go in its focus on tooling quality, and stability. Their community slack is very welcoming, too. https://cuelang.slack.com https://cuelang.slack.com

mdaniel 7y ago
For those who don't already have an account on that slack, then going to https://cuelang.org/community/ https://cuelang.org/community/ appears to be the place one will find the magic invite link: https://join.slack.com/t/cuelang/shared_invite/enQtNzQwODc3NzYzNTA0LTAxNWQwZGU2YWFiOWFiOWQ4MjVjNGQ2ZTNlMmIxODc4MDVjMDg5YmIyOTMyMjQ2MTkzMTU5ZjA1OGE0OGE1NmE https://join.slack.com/t/cuelang/shared_invite/enQtNzQwODc3N... off(but actually on)-topic: I can't wait for the use of slack for open source communities to die in a fire, not only because the onboarding experience is horrible, and search is a mess, but about 75% of them appear to be the non-paid flavor so old messages are just held for ransom
- zapita 7y ago
  I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
  - mdaniel 7y ago
    Even Mattermost doesn't offer free accounts to open source projects[1], and I think it's the _hosting_ that keeps projects off of almost any of the open source solutions. But one of the principals of Zulip almost always weighs in on discussions to point out that they have free hosting for any open source project that wants to use it: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulipchatcom https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulip... and seem to even offer "import from slack" to make it less painful to switch. 1 = https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ asks for a $390 "setup fee" and only for 1,000 users

by zapita 7y ago

mdaniel 7y ago

For those who don't already have an account on that slack, then going to https://cuelang.org/community/ https://cuelang.org/community/ appears to be the place one will find the magic invite link: https://join.slack.com/t/cuelang/shared_invite/enQtNzQwODc3NzYzNTA0LTAxNWQwZGU2YWFiOWFiOWQ4MjVjNGQ2ZTNlMmIxODc4MDVjMDg5YmIyOTMyMjQ2MTkzMTU5ZjA1OGE0OGE1NmE https://join.slack.com/t/cuelang/shared_invite/enQtNzQwODc3N... off(but actually on)-topic: I can't wait for the use of slack for open source communities to die in a fire, not only because the onboarding experience is horrible, and search is a mess, but about 75% of them appear to be the non-paid flavor so old messages are just held for ransom

zapita 7y ago
I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
- mdaniel 7y ago
  Even Mattermost doesn't offer free accounts to open source projects[1], and I think it's the _hosting_ that keeps projects off of almost any of the open source solutions. But one of the principals of Zulip almost always weighs in on discussions to point out that they have free hosting for any open source project that wants to use it: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulipchatcom https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulip... and seem to even offer "import from slack" to make it less painful to switch. 1 = https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ asks for a $390 "setup fee" and only for 1,000 users