We may get a new contender in the IaC world next year 😄. Pulumi, CloudFormation, Terraform, and K8s YAML would potentially be "backends" that this "cloud-oriented programming language" compiles to. The creator said, this isn't to be thought of as IaC, but rather, a programming language that uses IaC for a lot of its function. Anyway, it's called

wing

or

winglang

. I'm sure it'll be a while before it's production ready, but still neat to think about.

we actually discussed this with Elad before he announced it. I have strong opinions on the viability of this, but needless to say it’s good to have some competition in the space

And, is it really a competitor anyway? Like, at some point, I just want a way to automate the creation of a GitHub repository and be done with it. I don't see why I'd need/want anything other than the standard IaC tools for that task. I'd hope that this would make serverless development easier on the various clouds--probably marshaling developers into using the smallest common subset of what their particular FaaS, queue, bucket, etc. offerings have in common. And even then, the scope of what these serverless functions could take on may need to be limited. Guess we'll see!

https://darklang.com is a bit similar in what they aim for, and there are others like https://getampt.com and https://www.shuttle.rs also trying their approach to remove infrastructure burden from developers. Different approaches to reduce cognitive load and incidental complexity.

There’s Nitric.io too