Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For Terraform (at least a few years ago) a badly reviewed PR could cause catastrophic data loss because resources are deleted without requiring an explicit tombstone. There have been lifecycle rules in place for as long as I can remember to prevent stuff like this. I'm not sure this is a "problem" unique to terraform.
What happens if you forget the lifecycle annotations or put them in the wrong place or you accidentally delete them? Last time I checked it was data loss, but that was a few years ago.
The same as in any other language when what you wrote was not what you intended? Sorry, I’m really confused what your complaint here is or how you’d prefer it to work. If you make a sensitive resource managed by any kind of IAC, of course the IAC can destroy it in a manner that would result in irretrievable data loss. The language has for forever put semantics in place to prevent that, and I’m not sure as a power user I’d want it any other way, I’m explicit with what I want it to do and dont want it making crazy assumptions that I didnt write.
like, what happens if you forget to free a pointer in c? sorry for snark but there are an unbelievably numerous amount of things to complain about in tf, never heard this one.