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Which is odd because tons of applications in the wild already have this amazing capability of directly consuming python and Haskell without first converting to yaml. But of cause you still have the ability to both produce and consume yaml if that’s needed for some reason.



What applications directly consume Haskell code? The only examples I can think of off the top of my head are apps written in Haskell that actually get recompiled any time you change the "configuration" Haskell code.

As for Python, that's because the Python interpreter can be embedded in an app.

That said, Dhall is exposed as a Haskell library, so if you're writing a Haskell app you could consume Dhall directly and skip the YAML. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-1.24.0/docs/Dhall-... shows examples of this.




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