Am I the only person that despises CDK? Why would I use a cloud specific language instead of something like opentofu?

coredog64 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

CDK's twin problems are that it compiles down to CloudFormation and that AWS did a terrible job at supporting languages other than TypeScript. The latter is theoretically fixable with a native FFI library that is called from each language, but the former is too leaky of an abstraction.

	▲	baby a day ago \| parent [-]
		I've only ever used it with ts and thought the experience was pretty good (especially compared to terraform)

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baby a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Considering all the downvotes I got I guess you're not the only one. I'm surprised because I really like cdk. It makes creating an AWS stack really easy, and for having dealt with terraform configurations that were trying to deal with multiple cloud platforms I'd rather have a per-platform eDSL