[na85]

>I wonder if that’s not specific to those communities rather than the Go community as a whole.

Maybe. My experience with IRC communities, especially tech-focused ones, is that they tend to be pretty welcoming and friendly. For example #lisp and its sibling channels, on libera, are some of the nicest places around.

By contrast everyone I interacted with on #go-nuts seemed to have a huge chip on their shoulder and a quick snarky answer always at the ready for why Go is always better than $language in every way, no matter what.