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Two thoughts on this:

(1) We have a similar sort of "expression language" at my job; in our case, the value it provides is ready access to the pseudo-AST we parse it into. We transform that AST at runtime (along with subexpression results) into a human-friendly error message like "Total Amount must be less than $X when Blah Mumble is under Y". The downside is that that "configuration" data now behaves more like code but doesn't have any of the tooling of the host language: we've had to add specific code to provide a stacktrace-equivalent hint about where expression evaluation failed.

(2) The bummer design decision in JsonLogic, IMO, is the leakage of the JS equality operator into what could have been a language-agnostic description. That's going to be nasty to implement elsewhere.



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