have you actually read it since he prefixed it with this?

EDIT: This is now an old post and my opinion of Go has

changed a great deal over the years. This article has been used to cause

harm on the reputation of Go and its community which is not warranted.

Over the years i’ve come to appreciate the simplicity of Go and the

ethos behind its creation. Today, I’m employed as a Go engineer and I

enjoy using it tremendously. In fact, I’d go further and say it’s one of

the finest languages I’ve ever used. With all honesty, my opinion was

wrong when I wrote this article and the quotes by Rob Pike were

obviously a reaction to the complexity of other bloated languages.

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seriously, if you can read the object gobbledygook of C++ and rust et al but you can't read english i do wonder about your mental capacities

C++ and Rust et al are gobbledygook absolutely. No idea why anyone would write it. I write Haskell but then again you already knew that because you read my profile.

Yes I have read it and the prefix comes off as dishonest. He got a paid job writing Go now he won't bite the hand that feeds him.

oh yeah, you would work for years with a language that you hate right? seems legit

Paying bills is a powerful incentive.

saying you like something is endorsement and assumes this person is making money from saying anything at all

being a programmer, you have choice, and i can assure you that finding work writing in Go is definitely a choice that narrows your options, because everyone is so in love with rust and scala and clojure and kotlin these days

i've been passed over numerous times because i refuse to work with any other language

Scala with functional libraries like cats or zio is pretty good, covers what Haskell does for 80% of "enterprise" use cases.

Of course for that you have to be competent and not one of Rob's nincompoops "not capable of understanding a brilliant language". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16143918

That's my suspicion.

seems very specious to me, would you prefer they had retracted it?

I don't care. Go is a dimwit language and the post (minus the "update") confirms it.