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		chubot on Aug 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Sounds like `curl ... \| jq ...` to me! Not saying you shouldn't use Go for that problem, in a particular context, but it does drive home how much of programming is glue ... there is combinatorial amounts of glue, which is why JSON, HTTP, compression, etc. end up being part of so many problems

dartos on Aug 12, 2024 [–]

There’s a big difference between building something on curl and jq and building something using a language’s standard library.

Everything is just bits at the end of the day. Just about anything can do anything.

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