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by zR0x 1771 days ago
Yeah, same experience. We had to write our own “terraform” like tooling to make use of it (retry loops and the like). It has (had? This was a couple years ago) no awareness, for example, of AWS, so out comes the SDK and Go.

“Why not just create templates with the SDK, constrain configurable fields with regex?”, I offered.

“CUE has typed feature structures!”, they said.

“FML.”, I thought.

It didn’t simplify configuration at all.

What simplifies configuration is all the people that know an existing tool and can be productive in it. As a late-comer CUE has none of that advantage.

Businesses want to solve business problems. Not meditate on one problem in perpetuity.