These are author opinion and I respect and understand where he came from. People should have ability to share about their opinions with the world. That's great.

These are author opinion and I respect and understand where he came from. People should have ability to share about their opinions with the world. That's great. But argue about the syntax highlight are silly to me. Argue about leadership though on that syntax highlight is fine. Below are mine. Let's look at Go from 2 angles: - Go the language - Go the leadership Go, the language is great to me. In the article, OP talk about `go get`, GOPATH, Error Handling. To me they are fine. I love `go get` because it was so easy to install binary that way and get update too. It fall short when have conflict because you have a single global tree which thing depend on. This is obviously not gonna work in long run, and in fact they always said they use it different way at google and expect community standarize and find ways through it. Which eventually lead to where we are now with go module. But let's take a step back. Let's say if everything work great, do you like `go get`. It's just feel like `homebrew` and a game changer to me. What if we can abstract everything out, make `go get` works great as it's without population the global tree. Technologies will evolve. Look at how JavaScript evolve and become a great language and platform as it's right now. Give Go time. Same with error handling. Exception is just as annying too. You either handle it or just swallow up or let's it buble up. I prefer Go style. Read Go code force me to think about error right at that point. I would love Go to have thing like Result or Maybe :( instead of return multiple value which is just a convention right now. Go bring lots of toolchain and interesting idea. gofmt gofix etc... However, Go the leadership isn't up to Go the language. I think they feel to the trap when they made a language which many big project use(influxdb k8s docker...) and they get defensive when people talk about Go or criticize it. Look at how friendly Jose of Elixir or Matz of Ruby is. I would love Go leadership reach that. I read in other thread where someone say `Golang` and one of Go core dev just dismiss because he written `Golang` instead of `Go`. I think eventually the leadership will change. Go is opensource after all. And we will see a day where Go is great both at language and leadership.