This is why, in the statically-typed programming language I’m working on, the project manifest is just a file written in the language itself which can export a

This is why, in the statically-typed programming language I’m working on, the project manifest is just a file written in the language itself which can export a special (typed) const to configure things like the linter. It gets to piggyback off of all the existing tooling for the language, particularly type checks, and can even be constructed using functions, etc if desired.