Comment by Too
9 hours ago
This does not match my experience. Terraform validate will check for types and you have great IDE support with refactor, find usages, resource documentation and everything else you might expect. You can of course build a monster of untyped dictionaries but that’s true for almost any language. Do you have examples of something else that the validation step does not find?
I never had this integrated with an editor but maybe I didn’t try hard enough. With CDKTF, a stock typescript IDE automatically has tab complete for every provider you want. That + being able to use functions, variables, loops, arrays, and structs for composition made it a completely different experience.
If those things all end up coming to terraform I’m all ears. For now it seemed more like a compilation target.