Why does it seem like Go programmers need to include "in Go" on the tail end of product announcements?
Micro v1.0 – a terminal-based text editor written in Go
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#22Why does it seem like Go programmers need to include "in Go" on the tail end of product announcements?
There's also already a reasonably-popular Go project called "Micro," though honestly both projects could have picked better names.
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#23Why does it seem like Go programmers need to include "in Go" on the tail end of product announcements?
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.
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#24Why does it seem like Go programmers need to include "in Go" on the tail end of product announcements?
They cracked some vulnerability in HN ranking algo. "Go" is a magic word
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#25just curious -- what motivated you to write a new text editor?
I know people for whom Vim was overwhelming to learn and they gave up or didn't use it properly. I'm trying to make an terminal-based editor which gives them as much as possible of the power of Vim or Emacs, while making it dead simple to learn and use.
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#26Any way to bind the mac command key (⌘)?
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#308.5Mb is a little too much for editor named micro. Whole DD-WRT/OpenWRT Linux Image is twice smaller.
Relative to: Atom, VS, Sublime Text, the mac Notes app, and modern hard drive sizes - it's pretty small.
No, it's not as small as Nano, but I have a hard time getting my hackles up over a single binary I can download in under a second.