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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.)
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.
I can feel you in Last Part: Element, Discord, Revolt and Signal. Only TG desktop is a non-electron messaging app which I use.
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 !
Some user see Rust or Go as safer Languages. That's all. Also, I don't have anything else to add in Title xD.
*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.
This is the reason for me.
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.
It's a sign of modern approach to solve a problem. Languages like Go and Rust have by definition and by principle less memory and security issues (not talking about other problems), which is otherwise a huge problem in C in example. So it's good to know the language being used.
The language itself can play a huge role for non programmers as well. In example Python can be a pain to use in some environments or it can get slow (although for something like RSS reader speed would be fine). For people using software from source in example, to compile themselves can have an impact too. It gets even more interesting for people who might want to look at the code itself, audit or edit it. In example if a program is written in Python, I know that I can read and make changes to it. In C, I would not be that confident.
Overall for most people it does not matter. That's true. For people like you, you can just ignore it. Not every title is for you. The title is for those who care about the language.