[ue_]

>I'm going to guess 36.1% more power, to be exact. Where's this figure from?

>We could always start performing eugenics to get rid of them.

I meant more like what we could do to improve the more powerful languages to make them more appealing.

I'm less bitter than I am perplexed about the choice to use Go over Lisp.

[jchw]

It was sarcasm. Obviously one can't objectively measure the power of two languages. I assume you mean it has more powerful metaprogramming than Go, which is what everyone else is saying.

But I find the rhetoric quite closed-minded, because I doubt any of the people replying here who've just found out about this and are calling it a bad idea have actually tried it yet. Clearly, there are advantages to Lisp that you would lose if you tried to do something in Go. But nobody is acknowledging the reverse, that there may also be advantages in Go to Lisp that are unforeseen, even for this specific task.

All in all this is a disappointing development. I don't think it would go over the same in other text editor communities, because people seem very defensive about the use of languages in place of Lisp where they might not be so defensive about the use of languages in place of say, VimScript.