To be clear, I have no issue with anyone who prefers Go. I was speaking about the core devs in particular. I would agree that the users of the language definitely go back and forth "trading blows".
Interesting and apologies for misunderstanding. I didn’t read the article as being elitist, though I can see how it reads as self-congratulatory to a degree. Maybe the matter-of-fact way that Go’s developers state its advantages comes off poorly compared to, for example, coming from the standpoint of trying to explain how they got to their current design based on the challenges. Personally, I find articles like this easier to read because they tend to be more terse when written this way versus some other approaches that are perhaps more humble.