Go creates statically linked executables. You don't need to have Go installed to run your text editor.

I tried to make it clear in my original comment that you wouldn't even need the Go environment if there was just a binary distributed, so I agree with you on that. I also realize that this is in the early stages of the development process and it doesn't necessarily make all that much sense to distribute binaries when it is changing frequently. My point was that it is a lot to download to get a screenshot.

I can't reply to drbawb (I don't know why sometimes HN doesn't give you reply links and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ). I am not so worried about Qt because there are a lot of programs that use it and overall if you have a lot of programs using it, it should decrease the size of the individual programs.

True, though it does look like this is using `cgo` though (for the Qt support?)

Do those dependencies end up statically linked as well? Otherwise you'll need Qt installed. I don't happen to have it on my system, but I'd imagine Qt is quite large compared to the Go development tools.

Not really; all of Qt5 (most of which presumably wouldn't be needed to run this) amounts to ~133Mb.

My computer is new, was expensive, and has 30GB of storage.

Of course I knew what I was getting myself into, and my usage patterns make this limitation somewhat academic. ;)