Terraform 0.15 General Availability

Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by bogomipz on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:27PM (#26815558)

>"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?

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Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by throwaway894345 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:35PM (#26815952)

Bizarre syntax, crazy resource paths, whole directories just to define one function, etc etc etc.

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Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by cies on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:33AM (#26816812)

Yet one more thing to learn. No types (hints in IDEs).

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Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by sofixa on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:09AM (#26817498)

v2 has types, and my IDE ( VS Code ) does hints

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Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by jen20 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:21AM (#26817595)

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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Re:Terraform 0.15 General Availability by cies on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:41AM (#26818265)

Thanks for this, I was unaware!

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