> I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated.
In 2015, the SRE org started project "Prod 2020", with the goal of unifying the SRE stacks and modernizing the web tools. It was quite successful.
If by "web tooling" you mean the tools for producing public-facing HTML services, those were used by a surprisingly small percentage of developers.
> But BCL is still the worst language I've ever used.
I'm an SRE and I think it's quite likely the best infra language I've ever seen.
> I'm an SRE and I think it's quite likely the best infra language I've ever seen.
I only worked with 4-5 SREs and they all grudgingly tolerated it. What did you like about it, compared to other infra languages you've used professionally?