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My opinion on hcl: better than yaml / json, worse than Python / Typescript / most real languages.

In fact I will use a real programming language for IaC over pretty much anything, as long as the language has an expressive type system and allows declarative idioms.

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Based on my build and deployment infrastructure experience, I love declarative approaches, everyone that thinks a general purpose programming language is a good idea for infrastructure code never had to debug deployment issues on big projects.

Great experience if one happens to be the lucky engineer on bench and called in to help out.

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