DSLs and generators can be a point of hot debate among infrastructure coders. Some love them, some hate them. Some of the reasons why people love them include the following:
- They allow CloudFormation to be written in a language that is more native to them or their team.
- They allow the use some advanced programming constructs. Iteration is a particularly well-cited example.
- Until YAML was supported by CloudFormation, using a DSL usually resulted in code that was easier to read and far less verbose.
Some of the reasons people dislike them are:
- DSLs have a history of becoming abandonware or significantly lagging behind CloudFormation, although there are a couple of well-supported DSLs out there
- Developers are potentially ...
