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"Dhall... that you can think of as: JSON + functions + types + imports". Is this Typescript?

• makapuf 4y ago
  IIUC, Dhall is pure and have no side effects
  • fbn79 4y ago
    so something like using typescript on Deno without extra permissions?
    • remram 4y ago
      "Pure" means something specific for programming languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
  • a-saleh 4y ago
    Unless you count the ability to do imports from around the web. But you can still make it side-effect-less by using caching and semantinc hashes on those imports?
    • ghostwriter 4y ago
      these are side-effects performed by the compiler's runtime in a sandboxed environment. Dhall scripts are unable to perform side-effects on their own. This is a completely different setting compared to unrestricted side-effects available within a script written in general-purpose language.