[robonerd]

There are two parts of my comment. The first part paraphrases what Rob Pike said about the purpose of Golang, in his presentation at Lang NEXT 2014:

> "The key point here is that our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically fairly young, fresh out of school. Probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language. But we want to be able to use them to build good software. And so the language we give them needs to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

The second part is based on my personal observations of human nature. Young and relatively inexperienced engineers often form a sort of personal attachment to whatever technology is enabling their new career. With this personal attachment comes a perception of attack against their person when that technology is criticized. This is a broad phenomena, not unique to golang by any means, but golang happens to be one of the languages that is popular with and promoted to young engineers. In discussions critical about golang, or javascript, or C, or python, there will often be young or otherwise inexperienced engineers interpreting criticism of the tool to be personal attacks.