>whoever comes across your clever code next will probably want to hit you, especially if it's not a dev from your immediate team, and especially if you have succumbed to blurring the lines between your idk code and your app code.
If you want to maximize the number of people who have a chance of understanding what is happening, python is your huckleberry. They are going to want to hit the guy who wrote everything in a bizarre language called HCL that nobody outside of infra has ever seen or heard of.
> If they instead come across some bog-standard terraform that maybe has a bunch of copy-paste and is a bit more verbose... Who cares? Its function will be obvious, there is no mental overhead needed.
"bog standard" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You can write simple python or esoteric python and you can write simple terraform or esoteric terraform.
If you want to maximize the number of people who have a chance of understanding what is happening, python is your huckleberry. They are going to want to hit the guy who wrote everything in a bizarre language called HCL that nobody outside of infra has ever seen or heard of.
> If they instead come across some bog-standard terraform that maybe has a bunch of copy-paste and is a bit more verbose... Who cares? Its function will be obvious, there is no mental overhead needed.
"bog standard" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You can write simple python or esoteric python and you can write simple terraform or esoteric terraform.