written by Ruud van Asseldonk published 4 February, 2024 About six months ago, I was fed up with it. The particular it was HCL — Hashicorp Configuration Language — but that was just the trigger, it was hardly the only offender. The issue I was struggling with that day was to define six cloud storage buckets in Terraform. They were similar, but not quite identical. The kind of thing you’d do with a