Why is rune in golang an alias for int32 and not uint32?

I googled and found this

This has been asked several times. rune occupies 4 bytes and not just one because it is supposed to store unicode codepoints and not just ASCII characters. Like array indices, the datatype is signed so that you can easily detect overflows or other errors while doing arithmetic with those types.

It doesn’t become negative. There are currently 1,114,112 codepoints in Unicode, which is far from 2,147,483,647 (0x7fffffff) – even considering all the reserved blocks.