[seebs]

I am not sure I'd go that far, but I want to point a thing out:

Back in the 90s, it was a running joke that if you were going backpacking, you should take along a 3' length of fiber optic cable. "If you get lost, just bury the fiber optic cable and ask the backhoe operator for a ride back to town."

In at least three programming-related communities I'm in, I have made a quip about "I think I'm gonna replace the 3' length of fiber optic cable in my backpacking gear with a short post about Go's garbage collector", and people have filled in "so if I get lost, I can just take the post out, and then ask pcwalton for a ride back to town".

I can't say whether or not the argument is made in good faith, but man, there sure is a lot of it.