Get the latest tech news

Apple Releases Pkl, a Configuration-as-Code Language

Apple, in a blog post: We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. When thinking about configuration, it is common to think of static languages like JSON, YAML, or Property Lists. While these languages hav...

Apple, in a blog post: We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. For example, perhaps there's a need to make code more DRY, so a special property is introduced that understands how to resolve references, and merge objects together. While these languages are tremendously powerful, they can be awkward to use for describing configuration, because they are not oriented around defining and validating data.

Get the Android app