Scripting a config file. Templates for config. We did this already, xml, XSD, XSLT, DOM...

It sucked.

Config should be easy and flat and simple. IF it isnt that source it from code, or from a service... Most of the nonsense of config madness is a byproduct of, or hidden in, containers. If we were writing installable software much of that would go away...

What’s this magical config service do? Take data in from a request and return transformed data back in response to configure the caller? What is the essential difference between this config service and existing config languages?