I see it in the vast majority of languages I’ve used, use, or consider using—Go, Elixir, Python, Ruby, you name it. I don’t think it’s much of a trend. It seem

I see it in the vast majority of languages I’ve used, use, or consider using—Go, Elixir, Python, Ruby, you name it. I don’t think it’s much of a trend. It seems a practical thing to do to ensure your project can be found by others—it helps when you want your <thing> to be found when someone searches for “<language> library for <thing>” or “do <thing> in <language>”. For Go specifically, it often may be mentioned alongside “cross-platform”, a signifier that you can use it for such work and, I think, also to help when people search for that term when looking to do <thing>.