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Turing complete config files makes me a bit nervous.
by jobigoud 6y ago
Turing complete config files makes me a bit nervous.
- q3k 6y agoNot just turing complete, but impure. Configuration files shouldn't be able to perform arbitrary IO. Starlark to solve this exact problem, and is a Python subset so that people don't have to learn something totally new either. It's still turing complete, but at least guaranteed to not have any side effects, or even be able to access anything but an explicitly given execution context.
- telekid 6y ago@borkdude’s sci actually seems like a nice contender for this as well.