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Very excited to see this (if it is what I think it is...). Still reading about it.

I really like Terraform but haven't been a fan of the existing way of bringing external code into my terraform scripts, via some strange go-like "refer to this github" repo mechanism.

Hopefully this makes them package able artifacts. Looking forward to watching the keynote and other videos from Hashiconf.

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I'd really love to be able to build modules in some other language like python, ruby or even javascript just because I am not very fluent yet in Go and its tooling.

The modules are written in HashiCorp configuration language.

You can use json as well, but it is pretty unfriendly for the human users and you lose some of the interpolation.

However, very useful if you're code generating Terraform config because there are not a lot of HCL serializer/deserializer libs in existence.

You are right, I should have say "providers" with new "resources" and yes, this new registry is for modules, not providers.

If you want to build custom Terraform providers _without_ using Go, this is actually on the cards now: as of `hashicorp/go-plugin#fa4a2a351`, plugins can use gRPC to communicate with the core of Terraform. I don't know if anyone has implemented the primitives for building providers in another language, but it's now possible without too much pain.

[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin/commit/fa4a2a351f33b1...

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