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3 years ago Original reply by @gregwebs in https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/830#issuecomment-553109076
In addition to what is mentioned in the other issue, some things I have noticed are:
dhall just added support for defaults in https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/pull/767 When they are added to dhall-kubernetes, then it will be possible to configure kubernetes with dhall with a minimal amount of boilerplate. Until then, it is much easier to use cue for Kubernetes.
Its a lot more natural to generate lists of output and conditional output with dhall because it is more of just a restricted programming language
Dhall has some abilities that cue doesn't have
- automatic reduction to a normal form which can be checksummed
- safe remote imports (cue is also safe in that one can only generate configs, but its tool extension with IO abilities might break this)
Originally opened by @marco-m in https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/830
the Cue documentation makes comparisons for specific features with languages such as Jsonnet and GCL. Given the popularity and expressiveness of Dhall, I think it would make sense to have an equivalent comparison section. Thanks!