This post is an overview of the guiding principles driving much of the work behind the main parts of the Arcan Project. For those unaware, Arcan is presented as something as uncommon as a ‘desktop engine’. The grand claim is that modifying and understanding the entirety of your desktop should be ‘patching scripts’ level easy if we rework current popular abstractions and adjust the division of labour.

Four weeks ago, HashiCorp switched Terraform from an open source license to the Business Source License (BSL); three weeks ago, we released the OpenTF manifesto, asking HashiCorp to switch back to an open source license; two weeks ago, with no response from HashiCorp, we created a private fork of Terraform and said we'd make it public in 1-2 weeks; and today, as promised, we're happy to announce that the OpenTF repository is now publicly available at github.com/opentffoundation/opentf!