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edn + clojure was the most pleasant configuration system I've worked with, but I have never convinced anybody else to use it. Jsonnet on the other hand, people
by whacked_new 3y ago
edn + clojure was the most pleasant configuration system I've worked with, but I have never convinced anybody else to use it. Jsonnet on the other hand, people get productive in it pretty quickly. It's my default choice for all configuration now.
- sesm 3y agoI wonder, what would happen if Clojure was marketed as a configuration file format from the very start, without mentioning persistent immutable data structures, software transactional memory, and other scary words. Would it have more adoption now?
- whacked_new 3y agoI doubt it; edn seemed like _that_ rebranding effort. It looked json-like enough, but clearly didn't have the draw. People who complain that json has no comments obviously have a secret list of other gripes. The general tooling wasn't there, apart from clojure. I tried one of the edn libs for python/node and it always felt second class. The full power was just never there outside of clojure projects. It's like how everybody still uses QWERTY (including me) and are happy to buy better keyboards, but they must still be in QWERTY