terraform-lsp VS cue

Compare terraform-lsp vs cue and see what are their differences.

cue

The home of the CUE language! Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration (by cue-lang)
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terraform-lsp cue
5 109
572 4,754
- 2.3%
0.0 9.7
about 1 year ago 6 days ago
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MIT License Apache License 2.0
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terraform-lsp

Posts with mentions or reviews of terraform-lsp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-05.

cue

Posts with mentions or reviews of cue. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.
  • TypeSpec: A New Language for API-Centric Development
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2024
    If you are in a situation where you have a backend and you want to expose an API and then you would eventually want a client, you would need format specs as the starting point where server and clients are generated from that one source.

    At the moment, OpenAPI with YAML is the only way to go but you can't easily split the spec into separate files as you would do any program with packages, modules and what not.

    There are third party tools[0] which are archived and the libraries they depend upon are up for adoption.

    In that space, either you can use something like cue language 1] or something like TypeSpec which is purpose built for this so yet, this seems like a great tool although I have not tried it yet myself.

    [0]. https://github.com/APIDevTools/swagger-cli

    [1]. https://cuelang.org/

    EDIT: formating

  • Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Feb 2024
    Where `kube.cue` sets reasonable defaults (e.g. image is /). The "cluster" runs on a mini PC in my basement, and I have a small Digital Ocean VM with a static IP acting as an ingress (networking via Tailscale). Backups to cloud storage with restic, alerting/monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Caddy/Tailscale for local ingress.

    [1] https://www.talos.dev/

    [2] https://cuelang.org/

  • Apple releases Pkl – onfiguration as code language
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024
    I've been somewhat surprised that CUE bills itself as "tooling friendly" and doesn't yet have a language server- the number one bit of tooling most devs use for a particular language.

    I'm assuming it's becaus CUE is still unstable?

    Anyway, if others are interested in CUE's LSP work, I think https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/issues/142 is the issue to subscribe to

  • Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    This is where I usually pitch in with "Have your heard of CUELang, our lord and savior?": https://cuelang.org/

    - Not turing complete

  • 10 Ways for Kubernetes Declarative Configuration Management
    23 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2024
    CUE: The core problem CUE solves is "type checking", which is mainly used in configuration constraint verification scenarios and simple cloud native configuration scenarios.
  • Lua is a viable alternative for JSON
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
    If you really want executable configurations please consider a newer language like https://dascript.org or https://cuelang.org which provide better type safety.

    1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38030778

  • Writerside – a new technical writing environment from JetBrains
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2023
    Markdown and XML are nice, but what about more advanced documentation formats like OpenAPI? For one recent project, I set up automatic generation of the OpenAPI docs from (much more compact and flexible) CUE definitions (https://cuelang.org/) - which has the bonus of also being able to test the API against the definitions. JetBrains has a CUE plugin, but it's really barebones (doesn't even support jumping from the usage of a schema to its definition). Of course the possibilities when generating docs are endless (just think of the various syntaxes for doc comments, embedding examples/tests in source code etc.)...
  • Show HN: Config-file-validator – CLI tool to validate all your config files
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    It doesn't include validators for TOML and INI, but if you're doing JSON and YAML, I would take a look at using or building upon CUE (https://cuelang.org/). It is a different take on schema definition (plus more), and is surprising terse and powerful model.
  • That's a Lot of YAML
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
  • An INI Critique of TOML
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing terraform-lsp and cue you can also consider the following projects:

terraform-ls - Terraform Language Server

dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files

terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.

jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language

cue - CUE has moved to https://github.com/cue-lang/cue

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

starlark-rust - A Rust implementation of the Starlark language

dhall-kubernetes - Typecheck, template and modularize your Kubernetes definitions with Dhall

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

aws-cloudformation-res

jsonnet-libs - Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries