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CRDs are not tied to golang in any way whatsoever; <https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/writing-custom-controller-pyt...> and <https://metacontroller.github.io/metacontroller/guide/create...> are two concrete counter-examples, with the latter being the most "microservices" extreme. You can almost certainly implement them in bash if you're trying to make the front page of HN

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I never said that CRDs are tied to Golang, I said that the experience of compiling CRDs, back then gen-controller or whatever is being used these days, to Golang types was simply ugly partly due to the flaws of the language itself. What I mean is that gRPC can standardize the process of compiling both k8s own resource definitions as well as CRDs to make the process of developing k8s controllers in any language simply much easier. However this will probably complicate the logic of the API server trying to understand and decode the binary-based protobuf resource serialized representations compared to the current text-based JSON representations.

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