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0 pointsfiresteelrain2y ago0 comments

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

0 pointsfiresteelrain2y ago0 comments

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

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twic2y ago· 2 in thread

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· 1 in thread

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

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5 comments · 2 top-level

twic2y ago· 2 in thread

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· 1 in thread

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

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