Terrafirm isn't provider neutral. It is just a declarative wrapper for cloud provider APIs. Code using one provider is not easily translated to another.

I do think it's an excellent configuration management and provisioning tool, but Go Cloud solves a different problem.

Yes, we are solving a different problem. Terraform is about provisioning resources, Go Cloud is about interacting with them.

We actually use Terraform for provisioning in our samples, and we see the two working hand in hand.

A frustrating choice. I spend a few minutes per week running Terraform on a recent laptop. If it were written in Python, it might use more memory and require a few dependencies (which I don't care about at all) but then I could write plugins without having to deal with IPC and weird language-specific serialization (which Java should have convinced us is a bad idea).

heh I thought you were making a funny sarcastic joke and then realized you were serious :)