[jaaames]

Can't agree enough.

Declarative programming makes sense for lots of things, React is a great example.

With such a big dependency graph for infra, adding loops and variables and templating to be able to achieve the same thing as Pulumi in a "declarative" way is ultimately just harder and worse than using a familiar powerful language with an SDK.

[jen20]

Worth noting that Pulumi IS declarative - the languages build a graph imperatively, but the evaluation is declarative in nature.