Re: [9fans] troll paper

[Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>]

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Briefly, no. It's a constraint language, and it happens to be able to
produce yaml etc as a side-process.
I've used it to enforce constraints in a tax application. "Enforce"
understates what actually can be done.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 20:31, G B via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:

> Isn't Cue YACL (Yet Another Configuration Language)? Absolutely no way one
> can deprecate YAML and just use Cue, so all one is doing essentially is
> adding one more thing to learn and keep updated. And since it hasn't
> released 1.0, what happens if the new YACL never materializes but was
> adopted? Good luck ripping that out to return to YAML.
>
> On Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 09:26:28 AM CDT, Charles Forsyth <
> charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Although cue itself is more generally useful, applied that way it's a
> coping mechanism that indeed doesn't address the fundamental point:
> like those Sendmail configuration languages that compiled down into the
> rewrite language instead of just replacing that.
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 15:19, <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
>
> Quoth Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>:
> >
> > it's been a little while since i first looked at it, but i think one of
> the
> > example application is exactly how one might use it to avoid 80k lines of
> > yaml that you must look at directly.
> 
> while it may help -- this is just stacking complexity on top of
> complexity.
> 
> kubernetes may be a tool that some of us need to deal with for
> our jobs, but it has no place in a well designed rethink of the
> world.
> 
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