Knowing how big GitHub is on Ruby and Node.js I was afraid they had used one of these two languages to bootstrap the program.
Being able to drop the binary in any computer and have it work without hundreds of files as dependencies is a bless when you write programs in Go.
Hub was originally a collection of Ruby scripts for ±3 years [1]. They later refactored the code to use Go:
• Initial commit on Dec 5, 2009 was 100% Ruby code [2]
• @jingweno started a refactoring using Go on Apr 8, 2013 [3][4]
• The Go rewrite was merged to master on May 23, 2013 [5]
[1] https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/
[2] https://github.com/github/hub/tree/de9bfa2103ee81a547d4fc598...
[3] https://github.com/github/hub/commit/d5615fcb6f9c983fbf5d129...
[4] https://owenou.com/fast-github-command-line-client-written-i...
[5] https://github.com/github/hub/tree/0df403f14805d4962ee3adb22...
I've been waiting for both a command-line and programmatic way to interface with issues and PRs since forever and had to make do with modifying some ancient Ruby cli (and I don't know Ruby), so at least now they're headed in the right direction. I am fairly certain that Issues-as-Code will transform the way projects are developed & managed so I'm excited to see this get more features.
Before the adoption of shared libraries in mainstream computing during the 80's, it was just how we used to work.
They use Node.js?
lots of languages have that lol
It's what your parent likes about Go. Inventing a claim of uniqueness and then condescendingly dismissing it isn't a good look.
GHC has first-class support for laziness. Rust has affine types.