mleku on Nostr: i am pretty sure envs can be hundreds of elements, they are normally a lot, i believe ...

i am pretty sure envs can be hundreds of elements, they are normally a lot, i believe they are stored in a kind of VFS

anyhow, part of the reason why it is a good place to use, other than the fact that they come free with OSs of all types, so it's universal, is that it lets you separate the deployment from the app more easily... and you can ship configurations out to multiple devices just by scp'ing some simple text files

as for the typing... all forms of configuration fundamentally are based on human entered strings, or at least copypasta strings

if the field is not correctly marshaled then it doesn't evaluate to the app and the default value will override