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I too found that to be pretty awesome.

I've spent a few hours looking at the compiler source and the runtime code and a surprising amount of it is very understandable to me.

Git-bisect for the win!

On another note, I find it very odd that this fell off the front page so quickly. Is there some kind of go/google voters club on HN that flags anything that seems negative towards go?

It looks to me more like an accomplishment of git-bisect, which let the contributor isolate the bug to a few lines of code in a single commit.

Git-bisect helped a lot, yes, but you can see that the commit in question was huge, and complex, not "a few lines of code".