Dave Cunningham

I assume this is a bug in the underlying yaml parsing library?

I.e., rapidyaml does not support text blocks?

We probably want to use the backslash syntax for this because it's easy to parse but it's worth checking what other languages do and trying to be consistent with those...

yes there is a specific reason: laziness

Apologies, I was tired :) Indeed it has nothing to do with lazy execution.

Yeah I was thinking that jsonnet_execute_snippet and friends should return a JsonnetJsonValue instead of a string so you don't have to parse it back again. Although that does go against...

Have you tried using the contents of the vs2017 dir to build Jsonnet itself? It may be possible to extend that to build the _jsonnet.dll. However I don't think what...

Pip is an additional complication here, let's get the basic build working from source first. I suspect the only way to a smooth experience here is to build more natively...

It should just be a case of adding python/_jsonnet.c into the mix and building a DLL but I've never done it on windows. You'd have to point it to the...

Thanks for writing this up!