The author sums up his attitude in one of the first sentences: "I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks)". Go is not C, and it's not going to be like C.

The author sums up his attitude in one of the first sentences: "I’m not a languages person (C will do, thanks)". Go is not C, and it's not going to be like C. It's not really reasonable to expect it to have the same toolchain conventions as C. I'm not saying the choices to Go authors have made are necessarily good, but I don't dislike them only because they're different from C.