Russ Cox, the guy who wrote this post, is the technical lead for the Go project. He authored more of Go's code base than anyone else (by a huge margin). His opi

Russ Cox, the guy who wrote this post, is the technical lead for the Go project. He authored more of Go's code base than anyone else (by a huge margin). His opinion about these issues holds more weight than pretty much anyone. I wouldn't downplay it.