You’re right. What makes this project interesting is the idea and the design, not Go, yet it would be much harder to get this publicity through that. And that’s exactly what I’m saying: why should people upvote just because of the language?
I have a search set up that emails me daily about Clojure topics on HN. I'd be very interested to see new editors written in Clojure, and not very interested in using the editors themselves.
Both work well.
Tools are a means to an end. Attaching anything more to them is silly.