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by Ycros 2577 days ago
Good stuff. It looks like they've addressed a few of the ergonomic issues in their language with this release. The old way of doing iteration and having to use string interpolations just to reference variables were annoying.
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Hashicorp got it right with Vagrant and its Ruby-based DSL. At the end of the day you could always drop down to a proper programming language and express what you wanted if the DSL was lacking. Why they had to invent this HCL monstrosity is beyond me.