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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by atilaneves on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:39AM (#15364690)
Unless you'd want to contribute, why would you care what language it's written in? Why Go and not C++, Rust, D... ?
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Re:Modern terminal-based text editor by FullyFunctional on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:31PM (#15366736)
Because you want to run it on your favorite platform, which might not be x86 and thus need compiler support? I wrote my own editor for exactly this reason: to always be able to have it on any platform.
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