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[msft] :). Interestingly enough, the decision to use linux/docker was a no-brainer. I know from the outside it might seem odd, but these days, the attitude (and rightly so) is: use the language/stack/OS/toolchain/etc. you need to get your job done. I think you'll see an explosion of Linux/Python/Java/Go/... internally & externally on Azure. Data point - our team (Python), wanted to hold a "Python day @ msft" event to teach/inform internal teams on the language/ecosystem. We were hoping maybe 50..100 would show up, if lucky. A thousand and twenty one people showed up! Another data point - the official Azure CLI was just rewritten in Python (win/macos/linux): https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli Thanks!

Azure also uses this in their new CLI [0]. The biggest advantage of JMESPath over jq is that JMESPath is a spec, and thus can be implemented in several languages [1]. [0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli [1]: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html

Thanks, we updated the link from https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli.

Funny enough, I use Python primarily, but when it comes to deploying small standalone tools I have a list of things I want to rewrite into something like Go so I don't have to deal with dependencies. In my little experience with Node it seems even worse. One petty but relevant fact is that Node isn't installed by default while Python generally is. I can definitely see prototyping something in whatever language is convenient and after proving its usefulness rewrite it in a language that fits wider goals. Their motivation[1] seems pretty solid. [1] https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation

Looks like the are going for both 2 and 3 support? https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/master/scripts/dev_s... EDIT: Nah, only 3. So much for Microsoft and it's legendary backwards compatibility. https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/master/scripts/gener...

motivation: - Dependency management for Node.js adds maintenance costs for Linux distributions. - Cloud tooling vendors prefer Python to match AWS CLI and GCloud CLI. - Python offers a more mature platform for building CLIs Python is typically available on Linux distributions by default. - While none of these reasons precluded building the next CLI in Node.js, Python was the natural choice. taken from here - https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation

Answers: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation

Link to the motivation page: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation