In 2003, Eelco sent out a "ping" by saddling devops engineers and ricers alike with a functional programming language for defining their infrastructure. Its relationship to Haskell (oft derided as overly academic) is often viewed by new converts as over-engineering.
But I feel like what you guys are building is the first real "pong" to Eelco’s ping that I’ve seen. "Oh, you gave us a Turing-complete functional programming language? Let’s use it to build abstractions instead of just clumsily working around it." -- @theutz
careful with statements like that, vic will copy it into the readme -- @sini