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As a Go developer, I'm curious. Why is it that whenever a project built in Go is submitted to HN, the title mentions that it's built in Go? What makes the langu
by dejawu 10y ago
As a Go developer, I'm curious. Why is it that whenever a project built in Go is submitted to HN, the title mentions that it's built in Go? What makes the language special that it's worth mentioning?
- xrstf 10y agoIt reads to me, in one simple word, as "not Node, so you don't need tens of megabytes worth of node modules and you don't need a working C compiler in case some of these modules want to compile stuff natively (something that is more and more common in my experience). Also, performance and startup time (!) will be good."
- MindTwister 10y agoI'm not sure why that happens, but for me the language gives me 2 extra bits of information. 1. Cool, it'll run anywhere i need it to (presumably) without dependencies. 2. Cool, I love that language, I wonder how they did it. For many other languages, the checkbox for 2 will be ticked as well though.
- ymse 10y agoThis question comes up every time a "X written in Y" is submitted. Some times the language implementation is a novelity, but usually it's just a non-redundant piece of information. Many people on this site care about the language, so why should we not include it? People who dislike the Y ecosystem are free to ignore it, and people who have been looking for an X implementation save some brain cycles figuring out what it's written in. Personally I think more articles should include this. I'm always disappointed when a cool-sounding project is written in Node..
- creshal 10y agoBecause "… in Go" gets more upvotes.