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by aroman 36 days ago
That’s exactly the point.

Wrangler, being cloudflare’s primary CLI tool, is a microcosm of exactly the problem GP was articulating: it’s focused way more on adding new commands than improving existing ones.

Many products, even supposedly “GA” ones, still lack basic operability via wrangler because instead of finishing building out its capabilities to manage existing services, they prioritized adding rudimentary support for new ones.
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dust-jacket 36 days ago
Nah, you don't get to claim they don't work on improving their products, and then handwave away actual updates to it with "yeah but those aren't the improvements I wanted". That's just life and priorities.

Abandoning something, and not making the changes you want to see are entirely different things.

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aroman 36 days ago
You're arguing against a point I did not make. I observed that Cloudflare prioritizes expanding to new products over making improvements to existing ones. I did not claim they do not improve their products.

There are numerous examples, such as Cloudflare claiming Workflows had reached "GA" status before offering a way to delete workflows... not via wrangler, not the dashboard, not the API. They eventually added this many months after declaring it "GA", with no upfront disclaimers, just the capability silently missing.

If they want to move fast and break things (and they do, as their numerous, "CEO declares an emergency" outages have evidenced) they can — but they need to be honest in their communication about the production readiness of their new products.

That is not "life and priorities": it is poor communication/judgement from an infra company, and misleading advertising at worst. I choose to believe it's the former.

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dust-jacket 35 days ago
> I did not claim they do not improve their products.

Apologies that I didn't notice you weren't CommonGuy, who said "improving them in the future is not really their style". Consider my reply aimed at them. The two of you seem to be saying something quite different. I don't think I necessarily disagree with you

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dumah 36 days ago
Sure he does.

It's not handwaving to complain that shipped features are never completed and a functional CLI for fundamental and critical tasks is never delivered.

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carimura 36 days ago
I suspect CF is their future CLI.
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