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I could be wrong, but I think they're just poking fun at all the "An X interpreter written in Y" where X and Y are the current trendy languages. Usually one of X or Y are JavaScript or Go, so seeing both in the same headline is like some sort of Hacker News headline jackpot.

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I'm subscribed to HN's RSS feed using a feed reader app on my phone, and when I saw this item the title was truncated at around "written." Somehow I just knew it would be Go.

I entertained the idea that maybe it would have been written in JavaScript, but I think a JS interpreter written in JS has already been done at least once.

The comment was also probably poking fun. Yours too?

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