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The original code was autogenerated, which is why the style was very terse and verbose. It's still like that:

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/tree/master/models/apis

The fact that it feels very Java-esque comes from two things, in my mind:

   - the AWS API has Java-esque RPC calls
   - the request/response paradigm is easier for 
     code generation

Personally, I don't like the style of the SDK, but at least it's maintained by AWS; you can always wrap the parts you use to get a nicer interface.

What do you mean by "terse and verbose"?

Haha, those words mean the exact opposite.

Ugh I failed at english ='(

I mean, "terse" in the sense that it is very mechanical, raw, not very elegant. Verbose in that you need to type a lot of characters, or read a lot of instructions, to understand the meaning.

raw instead of terse?

I am not native in English too. anyone can think of a better word.

Maybe "inelegant" or "rough".

What was used to auto generate the code?

Unless things have changed drastically, they use internal tools to generate the code. I used to work on one of the SDK teams.

They have a makefile target called generate

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/v1.0.0/Makefile#L31

Reading the code, it looks like the most important lines are around here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/v1.0.0/private/model/...

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