3 engineers on Hacker News describe using HCL first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“My main grievance is hcl, it's so close but so far from an actual programming language that it drives me mad, even after a few kilolines of it in prod”
regret · production · cyberpunk · 2021-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“HCL not being a complete language is a burden when you're writing build scripts that need to target multiple environments”
regret · production · laumars · 2018-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the configuration language (HCL) is rough around the edges and the variable interpolation gotchas can be very frustrating.”
regret · production · Gigablah · 2014-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?