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The project was rewritten from Elixir to Go, primarily because: - I don't write Elixir anymore and don't want to maintain a project in a language I no longer write - I already write Go for other projects, including my day job, so it's a safer bet for a project that I want to maintain long term - Go allows me to build portable executables that will make it easier for others to run farside on their own machines The Go version of Farsside also has a built in task to fetch the latest services{-full}.json file from the repo and ingest it, which makes running a farside server a lot simpler. It also automatically fetches the latest instance state from https://farside.link unless configured as a primary farside node, which will allow others to use farside without increasing traffic to all instances that are queried by farside (just to the farside node itself).