I use Terraform because of HCL, the absolute best thing about it is the declarative config; if someone insists on using their favourite general purpose language: 1) they're wrong; 2) there's plenty of other options for that and I'm not interested in fighting in Terraform's corner knowing they won't use it for the most fundamental reason it's good.
You do know all that CDKTF does is compile programming language code to JSON (1:1 with Terraform's HCL)?
CDKTF is not accessing the Terraform state directly, it's allowing you to express your configuration that you would normally write in Terraform in a programatic way.
> Aside from Nix, Python, and HCL, which I’ve already discussed extensively,
He doesn't seem to have much more to say about the latter than that.
'My reply', bluntly, is something like 'maybe it has shortcomings, you haven't addressed them; its most fundamental key advantage is not addressed at all, about it or any other language, and is not a feature of your new one'.
