On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, at 10:07 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 11/12/2020 10.56, Oliver Charles wrote:
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, at 9:50 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
(Dhall could work here since you can at least do inclusions and reuse in a generic way. Plus it has fully defined semantics plus implementations in at least a couple of langauges, Haskell and Scala.)
Psst https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-to-cabal https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-to-cabal :)
Yes, thank for pointing that out :). I think I actually tried it at one point, but it was way to immature at the time... must have slipped my mind since then.
IIRC my major problem at the time I tried it, it was also *really* slow. I mean "minutes" rather than "seconds" slow.
I think that may have been due to performance problems in the Haskell implementation of Dhall, so hopefully it's not an issue these days.
Yes, it was due to performance problems with Dhall itself. This project actually helped act as a benchmark for us to improve Dhall. I think things should be much better now. I have unfortunately all-but-abandoned the project because there are no users, including myself. But it's still there and I think there's still a lot of useful work there.