It seems fair to me. They only said that it should be seen as something separate than a port, not that it was bad. Honestly I think you're both right.
Yes, it's true that it doesn't matter if you only want to get the code running in a Go environment for whatever reason. But anyone wanting to learn about TCL or idiomatic Go by reading the source code for this project will be disappointed, and that struck me as the main appeal of this when I saw the headline.
Yes, it's true that it doesn't matter if you only want to get the code running in a Go environment for whatever reason. But anyone wanting to learn about TCL or idiomatic Go by reading the source code for this project will be disappointed, and that struck me as the main appeal of this when I saw the headline.