Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

It added intrusive- codebase-wide- functionality that more or less could have been done with other (thread-based) approaches.

AWSCLI was broken for over a year- we had to do a ton of work to deal with the various packaging issues.

Don't break userspace.

Why was awscli written in python? Bad decision to begin with.

Hey! We have a product that we clearly want to release worldwide. Let's build it on something that doesn't have Unicode. Or any real threading. And is slow as hell.

You picked a platform that was going to have to break user space.

At least it wasn't JavaScript

Doesn’t have Unicode? What the heck?

I guess at least they're consistent (or maybe herd mentality) since both azure-cli and gcloud are both in python, too

I believe they're discussing that awscli was targeting Python 2.x for the longest time, e.g. https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/0.4.1/setup.py#L48 up through https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.19.112/setup.py#L64 from 4 years ago, seemingly cutting over to Py3-only starting with https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.20.0/setup.py#L62

I didn't go digging into it, but I'd guess they used the ubiquitous "six" library for backporting unicode functionality, but the point is likely "but why start underwater?!"

but, hey, at least they get to be ultimately dynamic, leading to horeshit like this https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.28.22/awscli/botocore/...

What does `create_client` return?! don't you worry your pretty head about it, it'll be whatever you want it to be! flexability!!11