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).