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0 pointsverdverm3y ago0 comments

I actually compared Dhall and CUE when I first decided to pick a language for config. CUE's theory spoke to me more, this page in particular https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

Dhall is written in Haskell, CUE in Go. I write Go extensively and can make use of CUE's Go API, something I couldn't do with Dhall. Since then, it seems like Dhall's development has fallen off a cliff. The CUE creator has built a team and they have raised funds. There is a sizable team behind CUE now. Lot's of exciting things to come.

There's a CUE community call next Tuesday, if you want to watch live: https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/discussions/2219 and the old ones are here: https://www.youtube.com/@cuelang

CUE can detect backwards compatibility of config, I use this for your exact use case. https://docs.hofstadter.io/first-example/data-layer/checkpoi... (sorry, I need to work on the docs more) The goal is to be able to generate SQL to create and migrate database tables automatically.

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turtleyacht3y ago

Thank-you for your reply. The CUE community call was very professional and gave the impression of a well-moderated project.

The hof docs are helpful. I didn't encounter any big issues.

I hope to use some kind of type-safety checkers for YAML files in the future. It's too easy to make mistakes and too difficult to simply discover valid values.

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