> All of that aside, my comment about my experiences with Go on HN go well past this single thread... Honestly I see just as many people being highly critical

> All of that aside, my comment about my experiences with Go on HN go well past this single thread... Honestly I see just as many people being highly critical of Go as well. Go is like the Apple of programming languages: it's opinionated, arguably spare in design and often polarises people opinions. But with regards to your main point, i was talking about production builds as well. I've lost count of the number of times I've pulled build data from a Windows PE or Linux / FreeBSD ELF. I went to college in the 90s and it was a hobby of mine to reverse engineer the build environment of Windows executables (a bit like in this article) because I wanted to know what technologies the professionals were using.