One thing that has kept me on dwm for so long is that my patched configuration no longer needs any more changes and I take it with me wherever I go. it was challenging but rewarding.
Never an upgrade needed.
I eventually want to go to Wayland and River seems nice!
I've reached for some complex awk when I am looking to parse snippets of code where breaking out a full language parser would have been too much.
One example is parsing statements from a Dockerfile but only within certain stages of the image. So I reach for regex range in awk and I can make something that works everywhere.
Of course I probably could have done the same thing in python by controlling the beginning and end via variables, but I like awk sometimes.
The gophers are https://podman.io/ which builds and runs containers.
My guess is they are building the same application in multiple distros for their one application
Like
my-app-nix
my-app-fedora
my-app-alpine
It's a common practice so users can choose the distro they prefer when launching your container in their stack.
https://www.cncf.io/phippy/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kubernetes/