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Dhall is too unfamiliar for most developers, IMO. Developers don’t want to have to grok an entirely new syntax just for config. I’m personally surprised no one
by throwaway894345 5y ago
Dhall is too unfamiliar for most developers, IMO. Developers don’t want to have to grok an entirely new syntax just for config. I’m personally surprised no one has added type annotations to Starlark yet.
- strogonoff 5y agoEverything is unfamiliar, until one adopts it.
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- throwaway894345 5y agoI didn't think it needed to be explained, but not all things are equally unfamiliar nor equally easily adopted.
- mattw1810 5y agoThe Rust implementation has it as an experimental extension (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust/blob/main/docs/types.md https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust/blob/m...)
- throwaway894345 5y agoOooh, very cool! I'll check it out and maybe port to Go.