Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go

Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by laumars on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @10:23AM (#11479807)

Given the way you've phrased that, I'm going to assume it's rhetorical and that you don't care. However some people do care, which is why some people include the language name in the title.

Personally I enjoy reading other people's code. Sometimes it inspires me, sometimes it educates me, and sometimes it just frustrates me - though thankfully that's less common than the former two. If a Show HN was written in a language I can't program in nor have any interest in learning, then there's little point in me reading the code.

Other people will have their own reasons for caring about the language. Those reasons might not matter to you but I'm sure it matters to them.

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Re:Go-hn: command line client for Hacker News, written in Go by fizzbatter on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @11:27AM (#11480384)

Another reason to care, is that language often effects what the implementation is going to be like. Ie, if this was NodeJS, it would likely require i have Node installed. If it's a binary language, there's a good chance it has no runtime dependencies, or possibly just some lib deps.

edit: Looks like this same argument has been made plenty of times :)

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