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Imagine Jsonnet, but internal to Google, old and quirky. It's not public, but the name has been leaked for a while now.

Edit: here's a thesis that works with a related language, GCL, with code samples: https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/46927079/638953-1....

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"Old and quirky" is an understatement. It's a god-awful mess, with semantics so murky that people end up just copying patterns and hoping that it'll do what they want it to do. And it can't be killed, because every bit of those implementation-defined semantics are used by someone.

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