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andychu edited this page Jun 25, 2022 · 5 revisions

Hay is the declarative part of Oil: https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/hay.html

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  • YAML Is a Really Bad Syntax for a Shell Script

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TODO: Dig up the Big shell-YAML anti-pattern Zulip thread.

Alternatives / Comparisons

TODO: Survey of Config Languages

  • Data: YAML, Toml, JSON, etc.
  • Macro languages: Go templates, m4, etc.
  • Structured Languages: HCL, Cue, Jsonnet, Dhall, etc.
  • Internal DSLs: Ruby in Chef/Vagrant, Python in Ansible/Puppet, etc.

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