Martin Atkins

(Wild speculation follows.) I've not investigated this with practical data, but your results seem relatively intuitive to me for the following reasons: Generic compression algorithms like those you tried benefit...

Indeed, that article is describing language features that do not exist and never have existed.

This use-case makes me think of an early proposal I wrote up internally a while back, called "Ephemeral Resources". We haven't had a chance to iterate on it any further...

I am working on a prototype that includes features similar to what I described in an earlier comment over in https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/35078. If that prototype is successful then I expect that...

It's interesting to observe here that in practice the very attributes that tend to be useful for identification are _also_ the ones that will rarely be changed in-place, because changing...

I think #28281 is also running into old SDK quirks where the protocol 4 shims are lossy and e.g. cause null values to get replaced by empty strings and other...

I think the main question that was left unanswered in earlier discussion was whether we want to hang any additional semantic meaning on the idea of "identifying attributes" beyond just...

Hi @rwblokzijl! Thanks for sharing this feature request. The implementation of `formatdate` actually lives in [a third-party library](https://github.com/zclconf/go-cty), but conveniently the third party is actually just me wearing a different...

Hi @mikewoodd3432, While it is true that you can potentially treat a Unix timestamp as a number and do arithmetic to it, it has been my experience that systems which...

In case it's interesting to anyone, support for provider-contributed functions is planned for the forthcoming Terraform v1.8, and so once the plugin framework is updated to help providers expose such...