One of my favorite projects that does this is Guix, which uses Guile for its configuration. See this page for an example: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_no

One of my favorite projects that does this is Guix, which uses Guile for its configuration. See this page for an example: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configura... It's a nice balance, I think - most of the time you can treat it as a normal config file, but if you need to drop into some programmatic stuff you can. I've done this in my own dotfiles to add custom package definitions before contributing them upstream, for example: https://github.com/jfrederickson/dotfiles/blob/master/guix/guix/manifest.scm https://github.com/jfrederickson/dotfiles/blob/master/guix/g...