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bogomipz
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Terraform 0.15 General Availability
>"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
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Bizarre syntax, crazy resource paths, whole directories just to define one function, etc etc etc.
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Yet one more thing to learn. No types (hints in IDEs).
sofixa
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v2 has types, and my IDE ( VS Code ) does hints
jen20
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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.
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Thanks for this, I was unaware!
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Out of curiosity what is it that people generally don't like about HCL?