AWS SDK

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/27/16 10:53 AM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/26/2016 4:06 PM, Jadbox via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Is there an AWS library in the works for D? It's seriously the main
>> blocker for me to push adoption of the language internally.
>>
>> If not, I can try to invest time into making one, but I could use help.
>>
>> (fyi, there's one in the works for Rust: https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto)
>
> I have some old code here:
>
>     https://github.com/braddr/downloads.dlang.org/tree/master/src
>
> It has sig v2 signing and some s3 object related code.  Super minimal and sig v2 is out of date
> (though still very usable, in most aws regions).
>
> Ideally, someone would partner with aws -- there's a developer tools forum -- to add D to the suite
> of languages.  I'm fairly sure they code generate at least a large part of the tool kits from the
> api definitions for each of the tons of services.  Trying to manage them all by hand is a loosing
> battle.
>
> I've been tempted to do this a couple times, but the time investment would likely be more than I'm
> willing to spend.

I've started talking with a few of the aws sdk engineers (some of who I worked with when I was 
there) today about their sdk and the tooling involved.  It might not be a horrible job to add 
another language to the mix.  I'm going to meet with them and dig through some of the tooling to get 
a better feel for it.

Later,
Brad