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In a polyglot shop, it can actually be quite handy that HCL is it's own relatively simple language.

From my ~1 year of experience with terraform, the simplicity of HCL leads to some pretty complicated config. In particular the absence of a true if, and the inability to define custom functions, or use any kind of condition or iteration on modules.

try out https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk i've had success with it thus far. i'm mostly using mainstream providers at this point though.

Yup that is why we use it. And it’s great since anything can be a data source