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Dhall is too unfamiliar for most developers, IMO. Developers don’t want to have to grok an entirely new syntax just for config. I’m personally surprised no one has added type annotations to Starlark yet.

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The Rust implementation has it as an experimental extension (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust/blob/m...)

Oooh, very cool! I'll check it out and maybe port to Go.

Everything is unfamiliar, until one adopts it.

I didn't think it needed to be explained, but not all things are equally unfamiliar nor equally easily adopted.

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