I think it was still a good question. Pulumi is relevant if we talk about cloud orchestration in general, and is a Terraform alternative. Terraform is an abstraction over cloud APIs and there isn't anything which would stop the development of a HCL -> Pulumi compiler for example.

> Clearly, based on my downvotes, I'm mistaken and should be ashamed.

Downvotes are nothing more than an indicator of how many people clicked the downvote button.

Isn't that to be expected? I only used Terraform for AWS, but the Terraform resources correspond almost directly to those of AWS CloudFormation and AWS's API.

It uses the _providers_ for Terraform, but not Terraform itself, and the licenses for those are unchanged.

There is an unfortunate meme that this makes it a “Terraform wrapper” like CDK for TF, which it does not.