alexei-matveev

Yes, not clear what is better. BTW, you can build native binaries from Instaparse. Just tried this: https://github.com/alexei-matveev/instaparse-demo

Only GraalVM which is another JDK of ~250M compresse, https://github.com/oracle/graal/releases The compiler is in the bin/ subdir of the archive. It is still not quite ready for the prime time...

I like the idea of "hermeticity" and "explicitness" of imports too. Still it felt like a waste of resources somewhat to prepare a "directory index" for a list of Grafana...

> suggest creating files like in your example automatically An easy/standard way to create "data structures" eventually like the one returned in the example should probably be the goal. Files...

>>It's not about the stdlib, it's about the language. > commandline tool for turning directory contents into jsonnet import manifests? Another possibility to keep it out of the core language...

Not much to report, actually. The isssue did not prove to be a "cost center" when manually maintaining the catalog of those Grafana dashboards all sitting in the same directory....

The order of [k , v] pairs could be a problem for stable generated configs. FWIW, Clojure implements "Sequential Interface" for Maps/Dictionaries/Objects too, the order is also not guaranteed, of...