[dserodio]

After Hashicorp's recent license change shenanigans I doubt any new OSS project will adopt HCL

[jen20]

Why? HCL itself is under the MPLv2, and the underpinning go-cty is under MIT. Both of these are perfectly reasonable licenses for even _commercial_ software to use, let alone open source.

[haiku2077]

Lack of trust in the project's future with the impending sale to IBM.

[verdverm]

especially with OpenTOFU being a thing too

[jen20]

OpenTofu literally _uses_ HCL, with a couple of minor adjustments...