It is meant to attract other developers interested in the language, but it also serves as a shortcut for what the project is going to be like. "An Awk interpret

It is meant to attract other developers interested in the language, but it also serves as a shortcut for what the project is going to be like. "An Awk interpreter written in Go", "An Awk interpreter written in Java", and "An Awk interpreter written in Idris" set different expectations about the product, the project's goals, and what the community of its contributors values and talks about. It tells you why you may or may not want to join the micro-club of its users.