[101km]

I believe in this instance it is the author wanting to level up on AWK and Go. The value is learning and fun.

An AWK interpreter written in Go is unlikely to be an improvement, except, well here is another blog post you might be interested in that has a similar sense of adventurous tinkering (it's about improving on grep): https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery....

That's from 2006 and the tl;dr was graybeards did things a certain way for a reason. And yet nowadays with have things like rg (and ag and a bunch of others).

[bhengaij]

I think my GP has an objection to it being shared and being on top when there is nothing to learn from this in terms of ideas (which I share) and not to people hacking away.

[Insanity]

But now other people who are interested in Go can learn from it. Seems pretty much the point of HN - finding interesting things to learn.