[skywhopper]

Maybe because you don't have to write it yourself?

    $ go get github.com/m3ng9i/ran && ran

[gopowerranger]

How much work is involved integrating this server into your application versus writing 20 lines of Go code? Or less. Maybe more.

[conradk]

Not necessarily. In addition, this kind of program can be really useful for development.

I use "python3 -m http.server" a lot when I'm just testing a bit of HTML/JS and don't want to setup a whole virtual host within Nginx/Apache. It just starts a static file server, on any platform.

[gopowerranger]

So just like go except with benefits.