Having not done much infrastructure before, writing Terraform seemed a pretty daunting task. Learning HCL and its nuances in a declarative manner and configuring it all for different environments is a bit of a learning curve. Creating the same in code using an imperative style seems a better path for a developer.
Setting Up
This is a simple example of using Terraforms cloud development kit (CDKTF) to create a Lambda function in AWS in Typescript.