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If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

OK, that makes sense. Thank you.

HCL isn't even a language. It's a tool to create languages. From the official docs:

> HCL is a toolkit for creating structured configuration languages that are both human- and machine-friendly, for use with command-line tools.

All the (Hashicorp) tools that use a HCL-based language actually have their own language with slightly different features and syntax, based on HCL.

I wanted to adopt HCL for my own project at some point, but then I realized it's not that easy because it isn't a language you can just use.

What does the L in HCL stand for?

The same thing as the L in HTML.

HTML is a markup language. Why isn't HCL a configuration language if its name says it is? (I know nothing about HCL.)

I think the fastest growing programming language deserves more attention, so I used one of the subheadings in the report.