[burntsushi]

> so the Go community by definition consists only of people who think Java-1.0 style programming is perfectly fine in 2014.

This is a false analogy because there are significant differences between "Java-1.0 style programming" and Go.

> Yes, there are reasons why the intended audience of Go just didn't care and Go is mostly used PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby etc, developers today.

Why do you feel the need to bin people? I'm a Haskell programmer and yet I love Go. In your world view, this is an impossibility. But maybe I've given you too much credit.