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bland-florist-27487
07/19/2022, 12:35 PM
Hi! Are there any decision documents I can refer to when trying to understand why Pulumi defines its own string- and array-types?
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billowy-army-68599
07/19/2022, 2:54 PM
https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/inputs-outputs/
This may help you understand why as well:
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2021/05/09/pulumi-apply
Essentially it’s the same reason as the AWS SDK, the types are async in nature and because Go doesn’t have generics, we need a way to represent they’re eventual
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bland-florist-27487
07/19/2022, 3:41 PM
Ah, so this approach may change with the recent introduction of generics?
(introduced in go 1.18)
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billowy-army-68599
07/19/2022, 3:54 PM
Yes we’re investigating that at the moment
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bland-florist-27487
07/19/2022, 3:58 PM
Excited to see what you conclude, will keep an eye on the blog 🙂
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