In 2026, multi-cloud IaC deployments average 47% longer init times than single-cloud equivalents—we benchmarked Terraform 1.12 and OpenTofu 1.0 across 12 regions to find which cuts that overhead. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ hashicorp/terraform — 48,287 stars, 10,325 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Craig Venter has died (89 points) Zed 1.0 (1588 points) Copy Fail (655 points) Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos with Historic JFK Flight (23 points) Cursor Camp (694 points) Key Insights OpenTofu 1.0 delivers 21% faster multi-cloud init times vs Terraform 1.12 (9.8s vs 12.4s avg) Terraform 1.12 retains 3% faster plan times for single-cloud 300+ resource deployments OpenTofu 1.0 uses 18% less peak memory (0.98GB vs 1.2GB) during init By 2027, OpenTofu is projected to capture 35% of the multi-cloud IaC market per 451 Research Benchmark Methodology All benchmarks were run on identical AWS c7g.4xlarge instances (16 Arm vCPU, 32GB RAM, 10Gbps network) running…