Kcl-lang + Taskfile

[cypherkitty]

Hi everyone,
I’m using Taskfile in my project here: https://github.com/meta-secret/memento-ai/blob/main/Taskfile.yml

I think taskfile is probably one of the best task runner out there.

What I noticed - when the project is growing it became much harder to support. I’ve noticed:

• It's hard to manage variables that included from other files. It's getting unclear where vars coming from, I mean from which file. Since all vars age global variables it's hard to manage them properly
• Hard to work with cycles and conditional logic, all the code with those constructions became mess quite quickly

I wonder if adopting https://kcl-lang.io/ instead of (along with) YAML would a good idea? Kcl is similar to jsonnet. Essentially kcl has is what yaml is missing, it would greatly increase flexibility, since kcl has great support of variables, includes, cycles and functions, combining power of kcl with taskfile would be the result is the best tool for task running.

What are your thoughts about that?

[andreynering]

Hi @cypherkitty.

We don't plan to migrate from YAML to any other format. That would be a huge breaking change, and we have limited time to work on the project.