• @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    Why is it that stuff written in Go always has to tell you that it is written in Go? As a user I don’t choose apps based on the language they’re written in? (Serious question.)

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      182 months ago

      Whenever you have applications were implementations are plentiful the only real differentiation you can do without creating a different user experience is the technologies used to develop it. The importance of which in people’s perspective is several things, mostly supporting technologies they like and want to see grow and possibly being skilled in the underlying technologies to actually contribute back.

      Certain technologies are also just hot garbage, I swear to God if I have to install another electron app for some messaging platform I will shit myself.

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        62 months ago

        I can feel you in Last Part: Element, Discord, Revolt and Signal. Only TG desktop is a non-electron messaging app which I use.

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      Actually… I do :/ Even though I have no idea of the programing realm, most of my self-hosted service via docker written in Go tend to be more “reliable”, faster, easy to use?

      I’m always happy to self-host somthing written in golang. But I do agree, its the new age “I use arch BTW” meme for programing language !

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      Some user see Rust or Go as safer Languages. That’s all. Also, I don’t have anything else to add in Title xD.

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        *Safer languages

        Also both produce single binaries (as opposed to interpreted languages like php, python, js), which is so much easier to deal with for maintenance.

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          Also both produce single binaries (as opposed to interpreted languages like php, python, js), which is so much easier to deal with for maintenance.

          This is the reason for me.

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      22 months ago

      When I use open source software, I’ll usually attempt to fix any small bugs I run into. I prefer to use an app made in a language I’m more familiar with to make this easier.