Niko, doko?

Honestly, when I need to write a quick and dirty script, my go-to language is Python. But the other day, as I realized I needed to write yet another small web scraper, I decided to forego Python’s BeautifulSoup to instead take a look at Go’s golang.org/x/net/html package. Needless to say, it is quite bare in comparison… But I also realized that it makes absolutely no concessions when it comes to strictly following the HTML specification1.

Go users out there are probably familiar with gofmt and it’s brother goimports (which actually uses gofmt under the hood). These are two little CLI tools (written in Go, of course), that have become core parts of many developers' Go workflow. Over time, I have personally grown very fond of these tools. They are undoubtedly great productivity boosters, but what I love about them is not so much their raw utility as their design.