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>"On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL." Out of curiosity what is it that

>"On a related note, CDK for Terraform allows DevOps practitioners to use a variety of programming languages instead of HCL." Out of curiosity what is it that people generally don't like about HCL?

throwaway894345 6y ago
Bizarre syntax, crazy resource paths, whole directories just to define one function, etc etc etc.
cies 6y ago
Yet one more thing to learn. No types (hints in IDEs).
- sofixa 6y ago
  v2 has types, and my IDE ( VS Code ) does hints
  - jen20 6y ago
    The IntelliJ HCL plugin has full refactoring support, auto completion etc. It’s a shame it’s not open source, since there must be a Kotlin implementation of an HCL2 parser underpinning it.
  - cies 6y ago
    Thanks for this, I was unaware!