The Dhall Configuration Language

I work on a deployment tooling team. In 2019/2020 we did a deep dive into Dhall vs. Jsonnet^1 for standardizing config and kubernetes templating across my company (Zendesk). We ended up going with Jsonnet (although some Dhall evangelists in the company have kept the dream alive!), which I think is a more approachable language for many, but Dhall has a lot of cool features and good things going for it. Jsonnet is far from perfect, but it gets the job…

Dhall is an awesome tool to have in your DevOps tool belt - we're heavy dhall users at meshcloud [0] and couldn't be happier about it. We picked it after evaluating a long list of contenders (yaml madness with anchors, jsonnet, ksonnet, j2/jinja, a hacked ejs compiler [1] and some more I forgot). It's so good we're looking into how we can give back/donate to the project. Dhall elegantly solves a major challenge: configuration management at scale. We build a…

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102203

Dhall looks lovely. Just enough programmability to avoid repetition, but not Turing complete so it can't evolve all the way to reading mail. Or at least, that's the promise - it's on my list of "solutions to try as soon as the problems catch up to the corresponding level".