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I wonder why the choice of technology is even relevant? Because of the hype factor?

A Go project is easy to contribute to. That's a huge factor for an open source project.

It matters for performance and reliability. Go is fine, and means you get a nice standalone binary. Java is fine, but you need Java installed.

If it were written in Node.js or PHP, on the other hand, you'd know to stay ten miles away.