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by aDotInTheVoid 2032 days ago
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1248321281474408450
2 comments
ibraheemdev 2032 days ago
CloudFormation is not a language, it is a collection of cloud infrastructure
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EdSchouten 2032 days ago
This tweet is likely referring to the fact that you can place special constructs in the YAML/JSON files to add control flow, thereby making it a crude templating language.
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ibraheemdev 2032 days ago
Microsoft has Project Verona
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nicoburns 2032 days ago
Microsoft has C#, F# and Visual Basic that are rather more significant than Project Verona.
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ibraheemdev 2032 days ago
True but I was thinking more in the systems programming context
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nicoburns 2032 days ago
Ah, I don't think Go, Swift or Hack (from the tweet you are replying to) really apply to systems programming contexts any more than C# does.
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