Re:Syncer: fast stateful file/disk data syncer written on Go
by coldtea on Sunday September 20, 2015 @08:20AM
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>With that said, as a user of a tool/library/service, why should I care what language it's written in?
Because it tells you a lot with what other ecosystems is compatible, how much of a fuss it would be to interface with it (in case it's a library and you use e.g. Java, you'd normally prefer a pure-Java implementation instead of a C+JNI one, etc), if it's a good fit for your existing dependency management, if you know the language to go in and fix an issue or adapt it, etc.
Re:Syncer: fast stateful file/disk data syncer written on Go
by mobiuscog on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:05AM
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It would therefore also be useful to state the platforms it would work on - in this case it seems to require a block-level device and is unlikely to be usable on Windows.
Because it tells you a lot with what other ecosystems is compatible, how much of a fuss it would be to interface with it (in case it's a library and you use e.g. Java, you'd normally prefer a pure-Java implementation instead of a C+JNI one, etc), if it's a good fit for your existing dependency management, if you know the language to go in and fix an issue or adapt it, etc.