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Nadrieril authored Jun 2, 2023
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* [https://dhall-lang.org](http://dhall-lang.org/)

# STATUS

I am no longer maintaining this project. I got it to support about 90% of the language but then lost faith in the usability of dhall for my purposes. I am willing to hand this over to someone who's excited about dhall and rust.

# `dhall-rust`

This is the Rust implementation of the Dhall configuration language.
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@Nadrieril, sad to read that. Could you elaborate on why you lost faith? What did you try to achieve?
Because DHall as a language may nicely fill a niche for me - but maybe not.

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Thanks for asking! I don't find it at all usable for writing configurations. Too many type annotations needed, very ad-hoc manipulation operators, little affordance to check runtime invariants. Compare with https://nickel-lang.org , which was designed to match up how we write config files in practice and has tons of cool ideas that make my life easier.
Another way to say this is I noticed I wasn't aligned with the vision behind dhall anymore. Partly because that vision changed over the years, partly because I changed

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