[atonse]

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.

[jfroma]

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.

[jen20]

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...

[charlieegan3]

The modules are written in HashiCorp configuration language.

[jfroma]

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

[lmickh]

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

[meddlepal]

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