[andreineculau]

I can double down on that. I have developed a pattern to use any language (but we used js/python) to generate cloudformation templates. This has started in 2016, long before CDK. The idea originated in GCP's docs where they present both jinja and plain python as a way to generate iac.

I often got asked "what about terraform?" Yes, what about it? It is a +1 in our stack, lagged (maybe not now) behind cloudformation releases, it still doesn't give you the benefits of a proper programming language, let alone one that many are familiar with, and we will not have a multicloud problem in the foreseeable future. So yeah, what about it?

In retrospect, there is a negative. The industry is brainwashed so looking for a new job becomes: but do you know terraform? Completely overlooking whether one could simply learn it :) it ain't rocket science