I'm always puzzled by these "Blah blah blah, written in Go" posts. Can't you write the same thing in any other language? Most of the time, isn't "Blah blah blah" just a Go clone of some tool written in another language anyway? Is Go feature-challenged, or nigh unto impossible to use, thus rendering "Blah blah blah, written in Go" newsworthy?
I'm sure this sounds sarcastic and to be fair, it is. Still, I really don't understand the need to constantly tout the fact that it is, indeed, possible to write things using Go. As a community, Hacker News doesn't seem to do this, at least not to the same extent, with any other language. However, if a new developer cracks open a Go book, it seems we have to have a "Hello, World! written in Go" article to go along with it. Does anyone else find that weird?
I'm sure this sounds sarcastic and to be fair, it is. Still, I really don't understand the need to constantly tout the fact that it is, indeed, possible to write things using Go. As a community, Hacker News doesn't seem to do this, at least not to the same extent, with any other language. However, if a new developer cracks open a Go book, it seems we have to have a "Hello, World! written in Go" article to go along with it. Does anyone else find that weird?