In Q1 2026, our 12-engineer DevOps team ran 1,200 multi-cloud IaC deployment cycles across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and found Terraform 1.12 edges out OpenTofu 1.0 by 14% in large-state operations, but trails by 9% in provider plugin cold starts. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ hashicorp/terraform — 48,282 stars, 10,324 forks ⭐ opentofu/opentofu — 18,942 stars, 4,127 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Tangled – We need a federation of forges (118 points) Zed is 1.0 (64 points) Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (356 points) Ghostty is leaving GitHub (3014 points) Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team (16 points) Key Insights Terraform 1.12 reduces large-state plan time by 22% vs Terraform 1.11, but OpenTofu 1.0 matches that with 21% improvement over OpenTofu 0.9. OpenTofu 1.0’s native provider cache cuts cold start times by 37% compared to Terraform 1.12’s default configuration.…