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You can be a happy Go programmer, whilst also recognising that the language has limitations & things it’s really not good at. That would be the mature, honest response to these articles.The problem is the author preemptively shrugged off those responses by ostensibly accusing those coders of having Stockholm Syndrome.
It was content like that which caused the issues. Regardless of whether it’s eloquent trolling or just a genuine but passionate piece, it was touching on an already hot topic with poor consideration about how it would be received.
And that’s fine for a personal blog. But when you then see your articles explode online and then proceed to write follow up pieces in the same tone and intended for the same audience (regardless of whether he directly submitted it to HN), it’s harder to dismiss as someone not trying to exploit flame wars to booster their own blogs traffic.
I guess they succeeded in that too; albeit a DDoS attack wasn’t quite what they intended.
To be clear, I don’t agree with the DDoS attack. Nor do I believe they deserved it (what they actually deserved was just for the articles to get flagged and forgotten) but I can still blame the author for the arguments on here when they saw the existing discourse and decided to write follow up pieces of equally antagonistic tones.