Huh, small world. He worked for Mochi Media around the same time as three friends of mine... Mochi recruited them right after they graduated UTD, and they moved halfway across the country for it.
Given how small Mochi was then, I bet they knew each other. Just goes to show you the tech world is a really tiny place.
I'm always astonished as to hows fresh Round the Horne sounds even today, when many of the comedy programmes of that era sound distinctly dated. Still funny, worth a listen.
Peter Molyneux talks about how his software business began and recalls the humous baked bean story in his Game Developer Conference (GDC) postmortem of Populus:
Who is hoping to gain from the public ridicule? I doubt it is the target.
With this in mind, it would be wise to direct critical feedback privately to the creator. I believe feedback delivered directly and privately is more likely to see the desired change.
The choice between writing the server in Objective-C or Swift, versus Go was easy. For servers, Go is a natural fit.
Beyond's front end is a traditional macOS Cocoa application but the hard work is all handled by a Go binary.