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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by jmilloy on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:13AM (#11479722)
If you are just a user, and it's a binary, I'd say there's no compelling reason you should.

If you are a developer, you might want to know if you can easily make local changes, you might be interested in contributing, or you might just be interested in seeing how the internals work.

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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by akerro on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:15AM (#11479739)
>If you are a developer, you might want to know if you can easily make local changes

Not programming language decides it, but license application is on.

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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by justinlardinois on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:13PM (#11482614)
Yeah, let me just roll out some cool Apache-licensed projects in COBOL and see how many pull requests I get.
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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by laumars on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:26AM (#11479833)
The language matters in so much that not everyone can program in every language and not every language is equally easy nor fun to hack in.
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