> I don’t care in which language my editor is written in. Sure you do. If I offered you a version of your current editor in the Befunge programming language, y

> I don’t care in which language my editor is written in. Sure you do. If I offered you a version of your current editor in the Befunge programming language, you'd rightly decline! Programming languages aren't just all "basically the same". Programming language choice, communicates something because programming languages have values. Would you prefer a text editor written in Ruby or one written in Python? This relates to a favorite article of mine: It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to. https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-programming-languages-do.html https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-program... To tie in one of the article's examples: > Perl shepherds you into using regexps If you believe that regexes are hard to debug and overly complex, you might resist a text editor written in perl because it's likely that regexes are used everywhere (even when they shouldn't be).