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What is it with adding "written in Go" to titles like this? Was the title editorialized to get upvotes from the Go fans? Is "written in X" added to project titl

by xiaoma 10y ago

What is it with adding "written in Go" to titles like this? Was the title editorialized to get upvotes from the Go fans? Is "written in X" added to project titles in general and somehow I just haven't noticed it?

fauigerzigerk 10y ago
It's because this is Hacker News. How something was made is at least as important for hackers as what was made.
OJFord 10y ago
No, it's not just Go - Rust in particular as well at the moment, but also others. As sibling comment says, it's another angle for HN readers to be interested in. Someone might read it and think "meh, I like postman, I'm fine with that - oh but hey, Go, that's interesting - I like Go, I wonder how they..."
jasode 10y ago
>Is "written in X" added to project titles in general and somehow I just haven't noticed it? The "written in X" is a very popular[1] type of post for the HN audience because it usually points to source code like github/sourceforge. Your annoyance about it is puzzling and out of place. It's as if a commenter complains on a photography forum about a post titled "Paris Eiffel Tower taken with Canon 35mm lens"; the "Canon 35mm lens" is part of what makes the post interesting to potential readers of that particular community. [1] 50+ pages of results: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written%20in&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written%20in&sort=byPopularity...
gribbly 10y ago
It's pretty much the standard here, 'x' written in Go, Rust, Elixir, C#, Swift, etc I can't understand how you are just noticing it now ? Anyway I don't see a problem with it, like someone else mentioned, I might not be interested in yet another implementation of 'x' and would just scroll past it, however if it's implemented in a language I'm interested in then I might want to check out the code.

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What is it with adding "written in Go" to titles like this? Was the title editorialized to get upvotes from the Go fans? Is "written in X" added to project titl

by xiaoma 10y ago

fauigerzigerk 10y ago
It's because this is Hacker News. How something was made is at least as important for hackers as what was made.
OJFord 10y ago
No, it's not just Go - Rust in particular as well at the moment, but also others. As sibling comment says, it's another angle for HN readers to be interested in. Someone might read it and think "meh, I like postman, I'm fine with that - oh but hey, Go, that's interesting - I like Go, I wonder how they..."
jasode 10y ago
>Is "written in X" added to project titles in general and somehow I just haven't noticed it? The "written in X" is a very popular[1] type of post for the HN audience because it usually points to source code like github/sourceforge. Your annoyance about it is puzzling and out of place. It's as if a commenter complains on a photography forum about a post titled "Paris Eiffel Tower taken with Canon 35mm lens"; the "Canon 35mm lens" is part of what makes the post interesting to potential readers of that particular community. [1] 50+ pages of results: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written%20in&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written%20in&sort=byPopularity...
gribbly 10y ago
It's pretty much the standard here, 'x' written in Go, Rust, Elixir, C#, Swift, etc I can't understand how you are just noticing it now ? Anyway I don't see a problem with it, like someone else mentioned, I might not be interested in yet another implementation of 'x' and would just scroll past it, however if it's implemented in a language I'm interested in then I might want to check out the code.