Discuss: ftl.Config and ftl.Secret could be declared with non-FTL types

[matt2e]

Currently when defining config and secrets, only ftl types are allowed. eg:

var complexSecret = ftl.Secret[map[string]any]("custom_secret")

Every time they declare things like this, they'll also need to add a helper function which reads this generally typed value and parses it into their custom type (eg: CustomSecretType)

We should discuss if we want to allow this:

var complexSecret = ftl.Secret[CustomSecretType]("custom_secret")

When called within the module, it would return the custom struct.
Everywhere else it will be returned as map[string]any

[alecthomas]

Hey @matt2e I forgot you were writing this up, but I created #1296 with more detail so I'll close this one. Apologies!