the problem isn't necessarily in the abstraction. It's in the language design. Terraform (HCL) started off as a declarative language. Then people wanted stri

the problem isn't necessarily in the abstraction. It's in the language design. Terraform (HCL) started off as a declarative language. Then people wanted string concatenation. Then conditionals. Then modules. You end up with this kludge of a language that benefits from none of the foresight of having been designed as a general purpose programming language from the outset -- no unit testing, poor control structures, etc.