On Sun, Jan 7, 2024, at 5:34 PM, Daniel Mendler wrote:

The description of Bicep on Github
(https://github.com/Azure/bicep) is "Bicep is a declarative language for
describing and deploying Azure resources". Does Bicep really need to be
part of Emacs core? Couldn't it be added to ELPA instead?

Indeed.

And core developers who want to help with developing packages like bicep-ts-mode should really have gotten familiar with contributing to ELPA by now.