It s a question of who your biggest audience is Have you sur

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It s a question of who your biggest audience is Have you surveyed new Pulumi adoptees on what languages they already know

white-balloon-205 · Answer

To be clear Pulumi is fundamentally multi language and will be increasingly so over time It is very much a goal to be the best option for infrastructure as code for any developer and we are investing heavily in Python Go and NET as well as TypeScript and will continue to do so Feedback always welcome on ways we can continue to improve support for one or multiple of these language ecosystems

bumpy-restaurant-1466 · Answer

I appreciate your long term goal however I m still curious as to why Pulumi decided to focus on Typescript as their first language

flat-insurance-25294 · Answer

Because static typing that prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

also Luke helped make typescript which probably helped a lot with the decision making

bumpy-restaurant-1466 · Answer

< clever nest 47198> That makes a lot of sense For a new startup getting an initial product is one of the most important things and language expertise means both faster velocity and fewer issues < white balloon 205> has me a bit concerned Will that changing over time or is the structure set in stone

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

I have written probably about 10k lines of pulumi python and the only thing I ll agree with is the apply thing but thats not really weird if you re used to writing async python

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

I m using subprocess in an apply function just fine to shell out to the aws cli to update kubeconfig I use with all the time

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

If you re used to writing Terraform and then wanted to change your terraform script to pulumi python its very close <https pulumi community slack com archives CDE799L1M p1577381732019800 thread ts=1577160574 015700 amp cid=CDE799L1M> If you re trying to do what Matt s doing where you re making what appears to be something that doesn t fit into a resource graph and not done async you re gonna have a bad time

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

One annoying thing is certain libraries being typescript only first python kubernetesx python eks but we ve pretty easily recreated the functionality of those libraries in pythonn

clever-nest-47198 · Answer

team of about 6 people using pulumi python and we re doing fine to power a pretty big company delivering food

white-balloon-205 · Answer

gt One annoying thing is certain libraries being typescript only first python kubernetesx python eks but we ve pretty easily recreated the functionality of those libraries in python FWIW We are optimistic that we will be able to address this with the work in and discussed more high level in