> But what I do dislike is when people try to hype and con others into adopting a language to justify and increase the return on their own time investment.
The same can be said of any programming language community, IMHO.
True. This is why I find the point of the post kind of "backward". I don't think most people hate something because they feel attacked in their identity. I feel like it's the opposite: most people defend a certain technology at all cost because they feel attacked in their identity when somebody criticizes it.
Sure. I think it's more prevalent among Go zealots, probably because so many were lured into it by the inital hype, but it's not at all Go-specific. Another example is the hype and love-hate relationship people have with Javascript MVC frameworks. Even with React, which actually deserve the hype, there are many who default to "hating" it because they're sick of being fooled by all the hype.