Create Python version Codex CLI
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Apr 16, 2025 by dyashuni Closed Apr 16, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (tibo-openai, collaborator)
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I don't think that a lot of people know JS.
It would be much better for the community to have the Python version.
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I think it's about equal, with 3-4M worldwide developers coding in Python regularly and similar for JS/TS. And it's fun to learn something new! However, we have discussed building a different version in Rust and/or Python and that might come soon.
By my experience ML guys do not use JS at all.
Rewriting it in a language that's good at CLI tools (in my opinion Rust or Go!) would be really nice - and not that massive of an undertaking at this stage when it's relatively small/new. Would probably make it much easier to accept open source contributions as well as the contribution quality would likely be higher and less prone to failures/bugs. Would imagine inbound volume of random contributions would be lower though (for better or for worse).