This is not code. This is configuration. FWIW we've been working on letting you declare data in YSH, a new Unix shell. So you can arbitrarily interleave code

This is not code. This is configuration. FWIW we've been working on letting you declare data in YSH, a new Unix shell. So you can arbitrarily interleave code and data, with the same syntax. The config dialect is called "Hay" - Hay Ain't YAML. Here's a demo based on this example: https://github.com/oils-for-unix/blog-code/blob/main/hay/iac-demo.ysh https://github.com/oils-for-unix/blog-code/blob/main/hay/iac... It looks almost the same as HCL (although I think this was convergent evolution, since I've actually never used Terraform): # this is YSH code! echo 'hello world' Data aws_route53_zone cetacean_club { name = 'cetacean.club.' } Resource aws_route53_record A { zone_id = data.aws_route53_zone.cetacean_club.zone_id name = "ingressd.$[data.aws_route53_zone.cetacean_club.name]" type = 'A' ttl = "300" } And then the stdout of this config "program" is here - https://github.com/oils-for-unix/blog-code/blob/main/hay/output.txt https://github.com/oils-for-unix/blog-code/blob/main/hay/out... It can be serialized to JSON, or post-processed and then serialized --- Then I show you can wrap Resource in a for loop, as well as parameterize it with a "proc" (procedure). make-resource (12) make-resource (34) if (true) { make-resource (500) } This is all still in progress, and can use feedback, e.g. on Github. (This demo runs, but it relies on a recent bug fix.) The idea is not really to make something like Terraform, but rather to make a language with metaprogramming powerful enough to make your own "dialects", like Terraform. --- I wrote a doc about Hay almost 3 years ago - Hay - Custom Languages for Unix Systems - https://oils.pub/release/0.27.0/doc/hay.html https://oils.pub/release/0.27.0/doc/hay.html Comments - https://lobste.rs/s/phqsxk/hay_ain_t_yaml_custom_languages_for_unix https://lobste.rs/s/phqsxk/hay_ain_t_yaml_custom_languages_f... At that time, Oils was a slow Python prototype, but now it's fast C++! So it's getting there The idea of Oils is shell+Python+JSON+YAML, squished together in the same language. So this works by reflection and function calls, not generating text ("Unix sludge"). No Go templates generating YAML, etc.