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Re:Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator base... by srevinsaju on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:06AM (#38010792)
HCL has a JSON representation [1], internally, objects behave that way. so it should be possible to write a Jsonnet wrapper around it. Terraform can currently parse json pipelines too.

[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/main/json/spec.md

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Re:Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator base... by nikolay on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:46AM (#38011040)
No, it's not the same - you need a preprocessor. I do use JSON with Terraform via CDKTF although git diff is way more unreadable than with HCL. So, JSON is definitely a bad idea, but HCL v2 is not as good as the alternatives.
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