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because it targets a specific audience. people not interested in editors may look it up because they're interested in Go, and vice versa.

editors written in Rust also announce it proudly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8734307, so do many other projects.

"in language X" tells me, "I'm comfortable hacking in language X, I'm happy with the idea of using a product written in something I can hack". A pretty good reason, I think.

Go is hype and people think that because it's done by google it's cool meanwhile people at Google are using more and more Rust they even made their own editor with it:

https://github.com/google/xi-editor

There's also already a reasonably-popular Go project called "Micro," though honestly both projects could have picked better names.

https://github.com/micro

Yes it's unfortunate that there is already a popular Go project called "micro." The name here is a play on "nano" editor and I had already started the project by the time I saw https://github.com/micro. Oh well, I still like the name.

They cracked some vulnerability in HN ranking algo. "Go" is a magic word