Usually it's too much work to do a refactor with the new language and a conversion. Much easier to convert first (with whatever warts the existing code base ha

Usually it's too much work to do a refactor with the new language and a conversion. Much easier to convert first (with whatever warts the existing code base has) then do a refactor. So I doubt their approach had too much to do with Go per se and more with wanting to get something out sooner rather than later.