I will agree that it's not optimal but there is still a big difference between text templating and Jsonnet. Something Jsonnet-esque but with more typing help,

I will agree that it's not optimal but there is still a big difference between text templating and Jsonnet. Something Jsonnet-esque but with more typing help, better debugging (especially error messages instead of `blah thunk, thunk thunk` would go a long way.