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Their symbol is hcp instead of hash, what a shame.
by NotSammyHagar 5y ago
Their symbol is hcp instead of hash, what a shame.
- snarf21 5y agoWell, it is kind of a hash of their name, no?
- jlmorton 5y agoCollides with Hearst Consolidated Publications. Algorithm reduces entropy quite a bit, not very strong
- digianarchist 5y agoTheir SaaS product range is called HCP https://www.hashicorp.com/cloud-platform https://www.hashicorp.com/cloud-platform
- thinkmassive 5y agoI would have preferred HCL
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- cyberpunk 5y agoI don't know a single person who prefers HCL over literally anything else, but still, it's a happy day for them so I won't air my entitled little complaints and instead say: thank you hashicorp! You made life as a cloud infra beard better for a while, and I wish you all success going onwards.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI like HCL vs JSON for Packer, mostly by virtue of supporting comments.
- dan_quixote 5y agoI've come full circle on this and actually like HCL now. It's so limiting that there's often only one (or a few at most) way to feasibly do something. This is kinda painful when your team is small, but becomes a net-positive in a larger team.
- acdha 5y agoI definitely have hit a few pain-points but I share your view. JSON/YAML are too primitive (and YAML's treacherous magic behaviours are downright hazardous) but a general-purpose programming language gives a lot of room to make hard-to-understand or non-deterministic code. I've gotten a ton of value out of Fabric (this is in no way a criticism of Jeff's great work) but I've seen multiple projects where people took at advantage of everything they could do in Python and made a deployment system which is as much of a project to maintain as the code it deployed. There are only so many teams disciplined enough to avoid that and I think the declarative approach avoids many of those pitfalls, critically dependent on providing a sufficiently rich set of abstractions.
- verdverm 5y agocue export --out json | tf apply This is now my preferred method
- anothernewdude 5y agoThe real pain comes from when there's zero ways to do a thing. I'm tired of config languages. Just be a library.
- zenlikethat 5y agoHuge HCL fan here. It basically fixed all my gripes with other configuration languages. Not too heavy, not too light and I love auto-hclfmt. I'm a bit sad it was so unpopular, and e.g., abandoned for Github Actions in favor of YAML.
- staticassertion 5y agoHCL is a hell of a lot better than YAML, so I'll take it.
- dkdk8283 5y agoWay better than CDK.
- alexfrydl 5y agoThe only thing I don't like about HCL is that there are not enough good libraries for me to use it as the configuration language in all of my projects. I love HCL. HCL 2 anyway.
- Galanwe 5y agoHCL is the reason I moved from terraform to pulumi+terraform backend.
- patrick451 5y agoHCL is bizarre, but I'd take it over writing configuration in yaml or json any day.
- darthrupert 5y agoI prefer HCL over everything else that's currently in use. Especially over YAML.
- albert_e 5y agoThere is a HCL in IT services industry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Technologies
- brentis 5y agoIt is. Assumed it would be. Guess the negative connotation vs. the cool one. $&'*€&<