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> I’ve seen an industry-wide trend toward using standard programming languages with those things (Pulumi, CDK, et al).

I can't really talk about Pulumi, but CDK is just a high-level CloudFormation generator, and arguably one whose only usecase is to serve as an ad-hoc template engine, much like SAM.

CDK is currently one of 3 or 4 offerings from Amazon that handle the same usecase, thus it's strange that you decided to refer to it as an industry trend when at most is a cherry-picked example.

Meanwhile, should we ignore how the entire industry, from Kubernetes to Docker Swarm and passing through Ansible and Chef and whatever other tools, runs on tools that use domain-specific languages?

> Gradle seems to be an interesting case of a successful build system (...)

...yet it's market share is completely eclipsed by the dominant tool, Maven, in spite of Android's push.