Why was awscli written in python? Bad decision to begin with.

Hey! We have a product that we clearly want to release worldwide. Let's build it on something that doesn't have Unicode. Or any real threading. And is slow as hell.

You picked a platform that was going to have to break user space.

At least it wasn't JavaScript

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mdaniel 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I guess at least they're consistent (or maybe herd mentality) since both azure-cli and gcloud are both in python, too

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mdaniel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

but, hey, at least they get to be ultimately dynamic, leading to horeshit like this https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.28.22/awscli/botocore/...

What does `create_client` return?! don't you worry your pretty head about it, it'll be whatever you want it to be! flexability!!11

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fzzzy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t have Unicode? What the heck?

	▲	mdaniel 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I believe they're discussing that awscli was targeting Python 2.x for the longest time, e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/0.4.1/setup.py#L48 up through https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.19.112/setup.py#L64 from 4 years ago, seemingly cutting over to Py3-only starting with https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.20.0/setup.py#L62 I didn't go digging into it, but I'd guess they used the ubiquitous "six" library for backporting unicode functionality, but the point is likely "but why start underwater?!"