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Sentry has been very good to us, and it’s a generally great business model to boot! Overall great for the community and for ourselves

I am going to whine a bit that the recent move over to the unified SDK has been less than ideal for us. The fact that the raven docs would point us to the unified SDK but not to a “how to migrate” page made me super unsure about whether we were doing the right thing (esp. when it came to the logging integrations on Python)

It’s kind of an interesting problem, providing SDKs for each language. Sentry went with unifying the API across language boundaries and I’m not super happy with the results but I don’t have like 30 packages to maintain

Sentry went with unifying the API across language boundaries and I’m not super happy with the results but I don’t have like 30 packages to maintain

Yeah, that move and the docs did not go exactly as planned. There are a few reasons why we did it: a) the old SDKs had no sensible state management which caused endless issues such as incorrect breadcrumb collection in async code. b) it's really hard for customer support to understand the number of SDKs.

We're working on improving that, in particular docs.

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