Fuck you, Hashicorp ... an IBM Company.
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On December 10th, HashiCorp—an IBM Company—officially archived the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDK) with absolutely zero notice or deprecation window. While they claim the project didn't find "product market fit," the numbers tell a different story with over 250,000 weekly downloads on NPM alone.
This move proves that you don't kill a project with millions of monthly users because nobody likes it; you kill it because it isn't selling enterprise licenses. The suggested "migration path" of synthesizing your TypeScript or Python to HCL insults the intelligence of everyone who chose code over configuration in the first place.
Key takeaways:
The Sudden Death: The repo is read-only and buried as of yesterday.
The Numbers: Between NPM, Python, and Go, the user base was massive, contradicting HashiCorp's official reasoning.
The Reality: To IBM, users are not a community; they are just a calculation on a spreadsheet.
What Now: It is time to switch to Pulumi, generate JSON, or look at Crossplane.
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