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Hovertruck | 3 years ago

Why does the title refer to this as a Go editor when the linked page is talking about having support for 23 different languages?

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Jtsummers|3 years ago

It seems it was originally a Go-only editor when it came out five years ago (looking through their blog posts). Ruby was only added earlier this year, and now this supports more languages. So yes, weird to describe it as a Go Editor still, but it would have been accurate before May.

parsd|3 years ago

I did ponder whether to not mention Go in the title, but I had noticed that it's unclear what the devs mean by "support for 23 languages". Go is known to have been their main focus. In general, there is no documentation whatsoever, although the editor is interesting.

mattiemass|3 years ago

We did start off with just Go. After doing a bunch of infrastructural work, we added another, Ruby. We've just finished generalizing this, in a way that both more 1st- and 3rd-party extensions can be created. To date though, we've only gotten to Rust and Swift.