Dhall to toml | toml to Dhall support

[b18050]

Just like Dhall supports
dhall-to-json,
json-to-dhall,
dhall-to-xml,
xml-to-dhall,
etc.
So, it should also support dhall-to-toml, i.e. it needs to be implemented.

I am exploring the Dhall right now. So that I can contribute to add this feature.

[toastal]

I find myself wanting this more and more as I see more projects support TOML as a configuration file but it does not have near the feature set of Dhall and doing a Dhall → JSON → TOML seems a bit unnecessary and a way to lose information. This transformation can been done with Nix builtins, but this still involves a third language and in a work setting, I can suggest Dhall for configuration, but Nix seems to be a bit too far.

[Gabriel439]

Today we can officially share that a student will be able to add TOML support for Dhall this year thanks to Google Summer of Code. We will create an announcement post soon with more details.

[Gabriel439]

Following up: here is the post that I mentioned:

Google Summer of Code projects: TOML and CSV support

This year Simon and I will be mentoring two students for Google Summer of Code who will be working on improving Dhall’s support for file formats Julio Grillo will work on bidirectional TOML support for Dhall Marcos Lerones will work on bidirectional CSV support for Dhall Right now is th community bonding period for GSoC, so I’d like to welcome them to our community and they will briefly introduce themselves on this thread soon.