[ianlevesque]

I like Nomad, which also uses HCL, but why would you use it for anything else? Serious question, it's not a common choice.

[OJFord]

It could quite easily be the only declarative language someone was familiar with (or the one most familiar, or the one thought to be most familiar to potential users).

Agree it's not common, don't think I've ever seen it in a non-Hashicorp project, but then declarative languages aren't (relatively!) common.

Alternate tongue-in-cheek answer: if you want a job at Hashicorp? (Or tongue-out-of-cheek: you already work at Hashicorp and are very familiat with it, or looking for a pet project to get very familiar with it.)

Would be interested to hear OP's actual reason though, I'm not criticising the question.

[lucasepe]

Hi! :) thanks!

I don't work for Hascicorp and no I'm not looking for jobs right now.

I'm really really curious... a lot!

I was fashinated about how terraform does it's magic, so I studied terraform source code (just the part related to Hcl).

I like the idea to write a custom declarative language, with expressions and custom function.

As side project (just for fun) I'm writing a 2D Cad all with custom Hcl directives and geometric functions (intersections etc.).

Since for my job I need to draw and change..a lot.. solution architectures diagrams... so the Jumble idea was born.

All the best, Luca