Nickel Modules

There&#x27;s no explanation of what Nickel is. Even if I click the link, I get:<p>&gt;<i>Better configuration for less</i><p>&gt;<i>Write complex configurations. Modular, correct and boilerplate-free.</i><p>I still don&#x27;t get what this is. Configuration for what? Is this an alternative to TOML&#x2F;YAML?<p>From clicking three or four links deep into the Nickel documentation, I finally found an explanation that Nickel is a language for <i>generating</i> configuration files like YAML or TOML.<p>Either I&#x27;m super out of the loop or the authors need to do a better job of explaining what Nickel is from the beginning.

I wonder how much Nickel has improved since last year. I attempted to use it to generate some Terraform code, and the experience was less than pleasant. This was largely due to surprising interactions and lack of documentation, ironically making it similar to Nix.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful it will keep improving.

i bet this nickel language is awesome and versatile, but that their own employees have hidden bash and python hacky scripts that generate what amounts to 90s-Oracle-consultant-xml levels of verbosity for simple config files just so you can have a test db for ci builds in the end.

Coming from Rust, there&#x27;s still something about those Nickel error messages that don&#x27;t read as well for me. They&#x27;re <i>much</i> better than Nix for me, but weirdly they still read a bit busy. Maybe it&#x27;s just my brain heh.. i can&#x27;t explain it.<p>Nonetheless I still am just dying to switch to Nickel from Nix though. I am so tired of not having types in my config language, crappy documentation available to my LSP, etc. The wait for Nickel has been long for me