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Hi, I'm thinking how to implement `can/try` in Rust and I'm wondering if you guys have any ideas for static languages (I've seen  <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/18506> <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/18570>). I'm wondering if converting the value to JSON and converting PCL accesses to JSON accesses would be enough or if more functionality is needed.

<@U07H2KT7P6C> I'm not the best person to answer this, so take this with a grain of salt, but seems like a  genuinely hard problem.  I don't think it's been implemented in any static languages that i know of. But json value seems like it would work for a lot of cases.

Actually Gestalt is doing something like that

In Gestalt all the Outputs are in reality JSON's which are constantly encoded/decoded

The main issue is that what's can/try really used for - if it's only to check if fields exists - then we're fine- if it's for arbitrary commands - less so

Oh, I meant, i don't think its done in Pulumi in any static language.

But yeah, agreed, if just checking existence, seems like that would work.