I believe that you are perfectly productive with Go, the article hasn't claimed otherwise. I used to be quite productive with PHP. That does not mean PHP is a

I believe that you are perfectly productive with Go, the article hasn't claimed otherwise. I used to be quite productive with PHP. That does not mean PHP is a good language. > The problem is that there are a ton of less experienced people reading stuff on HN (just as I once was) who will take this to heart but have nothing actionable to gain from it, except to think they're a bad developer using a bad language. They aren't, and they're not. You are replying to an article mentioning many of Go's problems, without rebuking any of the article's points. Perhaps these poor people are using a bad language? (Also perhaps some people reading this are "bad developers", whatever that means? Perhaps I am! What does that matter?)