I always have a dilemma when choosing between Python and node.js. I kinda look at Python as something you use when you just want to "hack something out" and you don't care about the performance very much. I tend to use it more for batch style operations, or things that you want to do in a clearly defined set of steps in a specific order (e,g. provisioning a new network). In a simple step by step world, Python is easy to work with. Indeed, node.js often requires additional effort to make things happen in a specific order. I like using node.js either for server-side processing (such as providing an API), or when you have a lot of jobs you can do in parallel that are IO bound, and you don't care about the order they are done in (such as doing a task on every single network). The async support in Python has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works for my thinking. It gives Python similar capabilities to node.js. And Meraki gives far more attention and support to Python. The Python SDK seems to get a lot more love. Indeed, I think all POST API requests are still broken in the node.js library (I reported that quite some time ago along with the fix ...) forcing the use of the mega proxy. The node.js SDK is using the requests library, which is no longer in active development and which people are being encouraged to no longer use. So the node.js SDK is a poor cousin with little to no active development. Out of curiosity, could someone post the download numbers (for say the last month) for each of the SDKs? It would be interesting to see what the percentage split is between them. For example, is the Python SDK making up 90% of the downloads?
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