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   1# Handoff — 2026-09-01 — the About box named the wrong language
5Fixed. `aboutText` takes the language and `ShowAbout` passes `a.profile.Language`, so Turbo Rust's About box reads "A Turbo C-style editor for Rust, / written in Go." and Turbo Go's still reads "for Go". Verified by driving both real binaries in a pseudo-terminal.
7The sentence was a literal left behind by the extraction from turbo-go: correct there, drawn unchanged by every editor built on the library.
9## In flight
13## Next steps
151. Nothing specific. It ships with the rest of the branch, and is part of what v0.2.0 will carry.
17## Open questions / blockers
21## Watch out for
23- **This is a class of bug, not one bug.** Any user-facing string in this library that names Go is wrong in every editor that is not for Go. `profile.Language` is the field to reach for; `grep -rn "Go" --include='*.go'` over the library's user-visible strings would be a worthwhile sweep that nobody has done.
24- **The documentation was already right.** turbo-rust's `docs/*/reference/versioning.md` and `how-to/make-a-release.md` both showed the corrected About box, so reading the docs could never have found this. Only running the binary did.

🛟 Updated. 28d5985 k33g 13h ago	1	# Handoff — 2026-09-01 — the About box named the wrong language
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	3	## State
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	5	Fixed. `aboutText` takes the language and `ShowAbout` passes `a.profile.Language`, so Turbo Rust's About box reads "A Turbo C-style editor for Rust, / written in Go." and Turbo Go's still reads "for Go". Verified by driving both real binaries in a pseudo-terminal.
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	7	The sentence was a literal left behind by the extraction from turbo-go: correct there, drawn unchanged by every editor built on the library.
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	9	## In flight
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	11	Nothing.
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	13	## Next steps
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	15	1. Nothing specific. It ships with the rest of the branch, and is part of what v0.2.0 will carry.
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	17	## Open questions / blockers
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	19	- None.
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	21	## Watch out for
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	23	- This is a class of bug, not one bug. Any user-facing string in this library that names Go is wrong in every editor that is not for Go. `profile.Language` is the field to reach for; `grep -rn "Go" --include='*.go'` over the library's user-visible strings would be a worthwhile sweep that nobody has done.
	24	- The documentation was already right. turbo-rust's `docs/*/reference/versioning.md` and `how-to/make-a-release.md` both showed the corrected About box, so reading the docs could never have found this. Only running the binary did.