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They have different design philosophies, but dhall[1] will generally do that sort of thing, and anyone who has dabbled with functional programming and hates bar
by harshreality 4y ago
They have different design philosophies, but dhall[1] will generally do that sort of thing, and anyone who has dabbled with functional programming and hates baroque syntax common to many languages from the early days of computing may prefer dhall over something like m4.
[1] https://dhall-lang.org/ https://dhall-lang.org/
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoOf course you are right and hundreds of such tools exist. The only reason we are talking about m4 here is that is basically everywhere for legacy reasons.
- enasterosophes 4y agoCorrect. I was motivated to use m4 to solve the problem I had, because m4 is ubiquitous. I wanted to know more about it, and I wanted my config files to be generatable on any machine where I spend some time.