Comment by throwaway894345

I strongly suspect that these CDKs are not very well designed. In particular, what I want is something that lets me generate YAML/etc in a type-safe fashion. That YAML is then the input for an engine which reconciles the desired state with the actual state (a la Terraform or cloudFormation). The idea is that the “real programming language” layer just allows us to DRY our YAML. For a use case like this, we don’t need inheritance or methods, but just structs, maps, arrays, and functions; however, these CDKs typically index pretty hard on inheritance and generally make things more complicated than necessary.