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helpful-knife-18557

01/13/2023, 11:05 PM
Hi, long time user of pulumi, really love the product, and its inspiring me to look into how to build these polyglot framework. I was wondering if Pulumi uses any open source for code/sdk generation?
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worried-rain-74420

01/14/2023, 2:25 AM
I’m not sure what you mean by “uses open source”. Can you clarify? Our code generation is all open sourced at https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi, particularly in /pkg/codegen. We don’t use any particular OSS libraries to aid in multilanguage codegen, it’s mostly hand-rolled AFAIK. Does that answer your question?
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helpful-knife-18557

01/17/2023, 9:28 PM
sorry for the delay in my reply, yes I found the code generation bit on github and was able to reuse it to explore how it all woks, quite interesting. When I mentioned open source I was wondering if Pulumi used something like
jsii
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worried-rain-74420

01/18/2023, 1:55 AM
Gotcha gotcha. No, Pulumi doesn’t use a core technology like jsii. this warning at the top of the jsii reference is likely relevant. Pulumi packages are native to their corresponding language runtime - we don’t marshal into an IR at runtime then interpret the runtime. It looks like jsii marshals into JSON then boots a JS interpreter? With Pulumi, before the provider package is published, the IR (in our case PCL) is fed into our codegen executable, which generates the native code for the target language.
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helpful-knife-18557

01/18/2023, 4:09 PM
thank you, super interesting. Ill keep playing with it to better understand the intricacies
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worried-rain-74420

01/18/2023, 5:21 PM
Great! Glad to hear! :D