Unfortunately this meme will never die. The good news is I’ll be getting shit done while people who go on about this crap will just blog about Rust or monads or something.
Improving your tools != making the same stupid argument people have been making for a decade as if it hadn’t happened before. I actually agree that there are improvements to be made to Go; generics and dependency management being 2 that look like they’ll probably be resolved soon. That’s not that the same as this crap about “it ignores advances in programming!” or “it’s a failure because it’s not a systems language like they said it would be when they announced it.” or “Google made it because they think their programmers are too stupid to write Haskell.”
Improving tools is complicated and involves a lot of trade offs. It’s not just “omg it doesn’t even have generics what a shit language.”
The people who care about improving their tools and knowledge will almost certainly end up way more productive than those who don't.
There's a thing called meta-ignorance; you don't know what you don't know, so how can you tell you're really getting stuff done optimally?