Looking at the GKE go sample I see that it uses pulumi speci

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Looking at the GKE go sample I see that it uses pulumi specific types for things like Strings and Arrays instead of using native go types Is that just a case of the sample not being updated or is that working as intended

lemon-agent-27707 · Answer

This is indeed as intended The reason is due to the lack of generics in Go Due to the async nature of the cloud we model a given input to a cloud resource as `Input lt T gt = T | Output lt T gt ` where T is your plain string type and `Output lt T gt ` is a future promise that will eventually produce a T In languages like Typescript and C we can use generics to represent this and allow using native types In go we have to create this custom `pulumi String` `` etc to work around this If you d like a high level overview I recommend watching this or

crooked-jelly-50877 · Answer

we found the async nature in TS very hard to work with at times

crooked-jelly-50877 · Answer

It would be really nice if this could be abstracted out but easier said than done I suppose

crooked-jelly-50877 · Answer

that video is super helpful thx for sharing

lemon-agent-27707 · Answer

Agreed the async nature can be a little bit of a mind bender

lemon-agent-27707 · Answer

Definitely a learning curve but it is very powerful and enables much faster deployments through parallelization than would otherwise be possible