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by mtalantikite
1889 days ago
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> There might be "a default language" but I suspect that is more likely to be Python than, say, HCL. One of the things I'm ridiculously excited about is bringing IaC to new audiences -- many folks learn Python at school, not so much for other infrastructure languages. As someone that has worked largely on backend systems and infra for a long time, are colleges actually training these infra skills? Some app engineers at a place I consult for was just having this conversation last week, interested in how to train infra skills and pretty much everyone had sort of fallen into infra roles over their careers, with no formal training in it. Most of us were just *nix hackers as kids, learned to program at some point, and now we’re here. Working on infra is quite a lot more than just knowing the language. I’m not mad at having something other than HCL — years ago when I worked at Engine Yard we developed a cross platform cloud library that let us write things in Ruby which was nice. But when thinking of solving infra problems I’ve never once thought “you know, if I could just write this in Python these problems would go away”. Actually I personally hate Python as a language, I’d much prefer to write Go or Rust or TypeScript, and it does feel like a bonus that everyone touching infra sort of just has to use HCL which removes a lot of bike shedding. Totally open to improvements! More isn’t always better though. |
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