Comment on Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from ScratchparentComments−twic3yI've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?−firesteelrain3yThey write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.−twic3ySo 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.−firesteelrain3yIaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops
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I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?
They write HCL/JSON. It’s not by definition low level anything per computer science standards. It’s very high level. It’s declarative.
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.
IaC isn’t programming. It is more like config files that have some scripting elements like for loops