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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by bovermyer on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:32AM (#11479378)
To put that question on its head: why shouldn't you care in what language it's written?
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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by HemanHeartYou on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:37AM (#11479414)
because users of software, should be language agnostic
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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by scrollaway on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:46AM (#11479510)
Most interested parties here are not merely users but developers. Potential contributors. Or if anything, merely curious about the inner workings.

That represents a large percentage, if not the overwhelming majority of users of HN. I'm surprised this question still comes up. It's a bit like when people ask on /r/gamedev showcases "why should I care what engine your game is built in?".

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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by maxaf on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:39AM (#11479430)
+1. Yet every time I use a piece of software written in a dynamically typed language, I keep asking myself: how could this be safe???
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