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0 pointsfiresteelrain2y ago0 comments

You just described the role of Terraform. HCL is very JSON like and human readable

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rirze2y ago

fwiw, you can write Terraform in JSON too. Not recommending it, but it's equivalent.

firesteelrainOP2y ago

Yea HashiCorp talks about it but also does not recommend it

twic2y ago

I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?

firesteelrainOP2y ago

They write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.

twic2y ago

So not what i described at all then. The whole idea is to have a low-level language you can generate with high-level code written in a real programming language.

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rirze2y ago

fwiw, you can write Terraform in JSON too. Not recommending it, but it's equivalent.

firesteelrainOP2y ago

Yea HashiCorp talks about it but also does not recommend it

twic2y ago

I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?

firesteelrainOP2y ago

They write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.

twic2y ago

So not what i described at all then. The whole idea is to have a low-level language you can generate with high-level code written in a real programming language.

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