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by ishaanbahal 2925 days ago
I don't know why the underlying language for the code is important in the product description? Seems a little clickbait to me. Instead why not focus of the UX you provide or the speed that you have. I just don't get why the mention of GoLang is required, unless its a hobby project for someone learning GoLang. I've seen a lot of these projects mentioning Rust or GoLang lately, capitalising on their popularity, I get that Open Source projects help in understanding the language and hacking around it, but repetitive projects also do this! Is there some reason for it? Btw, I did like the UI, only ended up with this error "Error: tls: oversized record received with length 20306" post login.
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IshKebab 2925 days ago
The language is important. If I want to customise it for example it helps to know that I know the language. Also it gives me a rough idea of how fast and robust it will be.

Finally the language affects deployment. Given that it is Go I know it will be trivial to cross-compile a static binary.

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comex 2925 days ago
For me as a user it would be important because programs written in Go tend to be more resource-efficient than programs written in, say, Python – so this program is more likely to run well as one of many daemons on a small personal server, and not fall over in high-volume IRC channels. (There's no guarantee, of course, especially since the client side is HTML/JavaScript.)
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dcbadacd 2925 days ago
> Is there some reason for it?

Attracting contributors who are familiar with the language might be one of the reasons?

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