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As a customer and dev, it's confusing to me when I look at Google's stuff and see official-looking unofficial CLIs.
by frollogaston 4mo ago
As a customer and dev, it's confusing to me when I look at Google's stuff and see official-looking unofficial CLIs.
- frollogaston 4mo ago* when it's also alongside an official CLI for the same product
- pydry 4mo agoAs a customer who uses open source I care more about whether it works well than whether it's officially sanctioned but I can see how some of google management and its employees would take a diametrically opposite view to the i dotting and t crossing. There are a couple of unsanctioned clients in particular where I'd take a dim view of the company trying to kill them and one where it actually happened to wide condemnation.
- frollogaston 4mo agoUnofficial is fine. It's also fine if the only way to use it is some unofficial or not-fully-supported thing, or if there are two ways but the unofficial one is better. It's just, if there's a real supported tool, it'd better not be possible to confuse with the unofficial one. If I were evaluating using a product like this and got confused about such a basic thing, I'd be gone.