[qezz]

> And guess what? They hate the HCL too.

Don't want to sound too harsh, but to me HCL is even worse than plain YAML.

By expressiveness, HCL is somewhat similar to Ansible-flavoured YAML - in both you need to use magic keywords to create any kind of abstraction (e.g. a loop).

HCL is worse than regular YAML because there's only one "true" parser for it, that is official Hashicorp's HCL parser. So if you are locked into Golang ecosystem, then sure it can work for you, otherwise you are out of luck.

There are a couple of tools that convert HCL into JSON, I tried both, they somewhat work, but in the end of the day it's a big hack. At that point I just gave up on using HCL and started using something else that generates JSON.

Hope you find some configuration layer that fits your users more than HCL or YAML.

[JohnMakin]

Not exactly true in terms of being the only parser - OpenTofu is a good project I’m highly supportive of