I don't know about the author's issues, but I wrote something like this because early versions of HCL were very limited. E.g., you couldn't write a module that

I don't know about the author's issues, but I wrote something like this because early versions of HCL were very limited. E.g., you couldn't write a module that cranks out autoscaled DynamoDB tables per region because you could only pass scalars to modules, not entire key schemata or tag sets. I really wish Terraform itself were written in Python or something similarly hackable without rebuilding the binary for everyone. I've glanced at CDK but it looks like building blocks for reinventing our own Terraform.