>TL;DR Golang was explicitly engineered to thrive in projects built by large groups of programmers with different skill levels, and there is no larger such grou

>TL;DR Golang was explicitly engineered to thrive in projects built by large groups of programmers with different skill levels, and there is no larger such group than the open source community. I think this premise could not be more wrong. The open source community is not a project team, and open source project teams are very likely much more homogenous and stable than teams working on commercial software. Yes there may be non core contributors, but if contributions are not up to standard, they are simply rejected. If that means slower progress an open source project can live with that. A commercial project can not, because it has deadlines.