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by masklinn 3916 days ago
> The Go server is likely faster

Which is not usually relevant if you just want to share a file over local HTTP. If you need a production-level HTTP server, you're not using either.

> it's certainly faster to type "ran" than "python -m SimpleHTTPServer".

If you're smart enough to compile ran and put it on your PATH, you're probably smart enough to create an alias for `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`.