I'm not sure about Go specifically (as I have yet to write a non-trivial project in Go) but D at least allows you to do manual memory management, if you so desire--down to using std.c.stdlib.malloc, which is exactly what it sounds like--although garbage collection is on by default. I usually tell people it's "...mostly garbage-collected," which tries to convey the flavor of a choice between fine-grained systems-level control and instantiate-and-forget application-level control.

To be fair to the author, I'm going to assume that the most esoteric (read: non-C-like) language he knows is probably Python, because he doesn't compare it to anything besides Python, C, C++, or Java. I also assume he left out Java because by "compiled languages" he meant "compiled to native code without relying on a runtime which is external to the compiled application." He's still missing a whole swath of compiled languages, but there is a point of view from which his comment makes sense, i.e. native-code compilation of C-like systems or applications languages.

("...you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.")