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Welcome to the world of **CUE** *Configure-Unify-Execute* a language that turns the usual “write YAML and pray” workflow into something that feels almost… serendipitous.
In CUE you dont *imperatively* build configs, websites, DB schemas, or API specs.
Instead you **declare** the shape, constraints and defaults you want, then let CUEs graph-unification engine search the (enormous but finite) space of legal values and hand you back the *one* deterministic result that satisfies every rule.
That moment when `cue export` suddenly spits out the exact JSON or SQL DDL you needed? **Deterministic serendipity** reproducible, cacheable, diff-able.
A 30-second taste:
```cue
package site
#Page: {
title: string & =~"^[A-Z].*"
path: string & =~"^/[a-z0-9/-]+$"
meta: {
description: string & strings.MinRunes(30) & strings.MaxRunes(160)
keywords: [...string] & list.Unique()
}
}
home: #Page & {
title: "Welcome to the World of CUE"
path: "/"
meta: keywords: ["cue", "configure", "unify", "execute"]
}
```
Run `cue export home` and you get the exact JSON your static-site generator needs, with every constraint already proven.
Change a single keyword and CUE re-unifies, yielding a *new* but still deterministic artefact.
The same file can:
* generate OpenAPI specs, Terraform, Kubernetes YAML
* validate incoming JSON requests at runtime
* spit out SQL DDL and Go structs (`cue get go`) or even HTML via a tiny script
Because CUE merges **types, values and constraints** into one concept, the usual inheritance hell disappears: you compose by *unification* (`&`) instead of copy-paste or fragile overrides.
So yes in the CUE universe you write a handful of declarations, run `cue`, and the “accidental” correct configuration pops out every single time.
Raw deterministic serendipity, no runtime surprises, no “works on my machine”.
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**CUE (Configure-Unify-Execute)** is an **open-source data constraint language** developed at Google, designed for **configuration management, validation, and templating**. It stands for **Configure, Unify, Execute**.
### Purpose