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The sales pitch should be that it's faster (if indeed it's faster), or easier to configure, or smaller to deploy... not that it's written in go.

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Being written in go already implies that it is much easier to deploy and the how and why it is easier to deploy (because it is written in go).

So contains more useful information than saying "easy to deploy".

ES is not hard to deploy. Maybe to use, but not to deploy.

being written in go does not imply anything about ease of deployment. kubernetes is written in go.

in fact, the type of project that sees something that works exceptionally well (like ES) and then decides to partially reimplement it (to the point of maintaining API compatibility) is a pretty big red flag that it is NOT going to be easier to use in the long run.

It is definitely super easy to deploy and run compared to ES. You can get up and running in less than 2 min. And you are right, messaging needs to be better.

it's almost certainly their "drop in ES replacement" story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32938630) since almost every other submission like this is "just" a search with a REST API. But there's _so much_ tooling out there which claims to blast text at ES/OpenSearch that it makes trying to replace ES hard since it requires changing every producer in that story, too

It says "lightweight". And this is HN, if a clone of a tool is written in a different language, it is customary to list it.

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