I wrote a super minimal DSL to allow me to dream in Clojure instead: https://gist.github.com/eneroth/f8c03bc5e4fcff28179aec5ea939eb86 It tries very hard not to be clever. It basically just allows a) splitting resource definitions over multiple files, and thus b) leverage the fact that Clojure disallows circular dependencies (which CF also disallows)

Saw this at the conj this year: https://github.com/StediInc/cdk-clj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDmupZyuXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ya6YpeIvw seems to describe another set of tools for this kind of problem