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I was fed up with the poor opportunities for abstraction in configuration formats. The many configuration languages that exist already were not invented here, so I wrote my own, at first just for fun. But then it became useful.

A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.

As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

Kusion Configuration Language (KCL) is an open-source constraint-based record and functional language. KCL improves the writing of a large number of complex configurations through mature programming…

A look at the development process for Octopus Deploy's configuration as code implementation, as well as the design decisions and more.