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0 pointstwic2y ago0 comments

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

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

twicOP2y 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.

firesteelrain2y ago

IaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops

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firesteelrain2y 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.

twicOP2y 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.

firesteelrain2y ago

IaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse