A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh
This seems neat. I love that there are examples front-and-center on the README page. This is exactly what I want and the first thing I would think to put when demonstrating a new language, but sadly this is rare.<p>I'm not sure how I'd use something like this, but I've often found myself wanting simple statically typed scripting languages for generating YAML/HCL/etc configs. Dhall seems close, but config is something that every engineer has to touch and the burden of making everyone learn its syntax and functional programming idioms probably negates the advantages of using static typing. I've also looked into CUE, but it seems like it's largely neglecting the problem that I'm trying to solve DRY configs in favor of some problem I didn't know I had (unifying a bunch of layers of mostly-static configs?). This seems even worse than Dhall with respect to burden:reward ratio. I haven't yet checked out Nickel (the statically typed Nix language)--would be curious to hear from those who have.<p>EDIT: just skimmed Nickel. It seems like it's trying to hew closely to Nix syntax and functional programming conventions, which suggests it probably shares many of the same problems as Dhall. Too bad. It seems like no one understands the assignment.