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> Go is sufficiently mature enough that those questions need not be asked any longer. Docker is built on it

So... just so I can get the chain of thought, here:

   * the language has growing for a while
   
   * people have used it to ship something
Therefore, no more need to ask questions -- just switch to it!

> I haven't seen any other language get as much hate as Go does on this site.

Given the amount of criticism PHP and JavaScript get on this site, this statement is simply indefensible.

And a lot of the criticism Go gets is concrete and a direct result of choices the language designers consciously made.




> Therefore, no more need to ask questions -- just switch to it!

Well, sure, if you want to twist my words then go ahead.

What I said rather clearly, but seems to have been lost on you, is that questions not asked in earnest but in flippant disregard for the developer's choices are not welcome.

And my statement on the hate Go gets is certainly defensible. I never questioned the criticisms, I'm not here to say Go is perfect, only to rail against the senseless vitriol that is guaranteed to fill the comments on every Go-related link posted to Hacker News.




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