My guess is the idea is that you can easily extend and customize it since the code base is kept small and simple (10k loc seems quite neat). I'm personally not

My guess is the idea is that you can easily extend and customize it since the code base is kept small and simple (10k loc seems quite neat). I'm personally not the crowd who'd use this kind of software. My preference is emacs which has a different philosophy when it comes to "hacking" the editor. This project might be something for the suckless crowd.