"some people use C" does not excludes "some people think C sucks" One might think C sucks and still use it. You might think it sucks, but it's still less bad t

"some people use C" does not excludes "some people think C sucks" One might think C sucks and still use it. You might think it sucks, but it's still less bad than everything else. Using something doesn't necessarily makes you blind towards its drawbacks. I think a lot of the things I use everyday sucks. But I still use them because there's nothing better... yet. All those programs written in C that everyone is posting about (quake, linux, gimp etc). Were written before Go existed. So it's very plausible that the authors could agree that C sucks if they had the option to write in Go. Which is the point of the article.