[crimsonnoodle58]

Yet said language continues to add imperative-inspired constructs to make up for its limitations..

The end result is still declarative, your just using an imperative language to keep your IaC DRY.

[lijok]

If you have the expertise and restraint to not go off the rails, I agree, imperative is more powerful. That plan does not survive teams of sizes over 2 in the majority of cases.

[Spivak]

But it's not even imperative. Your code runs, declares all its resources up front and then normal terraform runs on it. With cdktf you can even have it output the HCL.

At the point where we are templating Terraform files we've already lost the plot. You might as well get to use a real programming language.