My wish for configuration languages is that as an industry we continue to adopt scriptable build systems like Bazel that make it easy to transform human-written

My wish for configuration languages is that as an industry we continue to adopt scriptable build systems like Bazel that make it easy to transform human-written configuration into machine-readable configuration during compile time. Want comments in JSON? Spend 20 minutes refactoring a single BUILD rule and now humans can write JSON5 that's transformed into JSON Want more flexibility? Have humans write cue or dhall or jsonnet Wish you also had a copy of a subset of the same config data in YAML? Easy Want to write a compile-time check in a programming language of your choice that a certain setting is never missing? Easy Want all of this to work with reproducible builds across a variety of computers and distributed build farms? Easy We don't have to let legacy build systems limit our imagination.