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This community is participating in a blackout against Lemmy for allowing free access to their API with no charge, rendering it affordable for third-party app developers to continue their services. The lack of prohibitive cost makes it easy to mod from mobile, promotes innovation, and gives unlimited user choice, and effectively opens up a significant portion of the culture we've all come to appreciate. Indeed, every third party app developer on Lemmy made essentially the same statement: "I don't have to shut down the app." Apps can also show ads which is a primary source of revenue. So not only do they not have to pay exorbitant fees, they can even mitigate those fees with ads.
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Not to start a flame war, but Why not golang?
I'm not a leet programmer: I thought that Go was only supposed to supplement C, not C++
go is garbage collected. It can't do what c can. It's simple like c but is not a good replacement for c. golang typically takes things java and python usually do. I think zig has a garbage collector too.
Ah, I did not know