I've been running both Terraform and OpenTofu across production infra for a while now, and the number one question I still get is some version of "wait, aren't they the same thing? " The honest answer in 2026 is: they share a common ancestor and a lot of DNA, but they are no longer the same tool....
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/jjoyneriv/opentofu-vs-terraform-in-2026-what-actually-changed-2do7)