It is a data templating language for app and tool developers. It is a powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
Jsonnet is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
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TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.
Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.
It is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.
IntelliJ IDEA, Golang, C++, Atom, Visual Studio Code and 4 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Jsonnet. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Jsonnet.