As much as I love to see new things written in Go I am not a big fan of directly porting libraries written in different languages. It's not even that they're no

As much as I love to see new things written in Go I am not a big fan of directly porting libraries written in different languages. It's not even that they're not idiomatic - I can live with that just fine. But the real power of Go comes from interfaces - two great examples being `io.Reader` and `io.Writer`. Once you can structure your library code so that it reasonably implements these standard interfaces you can do complex stuff in a trivial way. Say I want to get a file via HTTP, encrypt it while getting a hash of plaintext and upload it to say Google Cloud. I can pretty trivially do it by putting one `io.Writer` (Google Cloud) in another (encryption) and another (hashing, via `io.MultiWriter`) and then perform the whole thing using a simple `io.Copy`. This sort of expressive power can be achieved iff all libraries you're using adhere to the same philosophy - which is not the case with ports.