On the whole I've found the golang community to be quite positive and enforcing good norms about crappy behavior. I wouldn't assume too much from a post Rob made 4 years ago.

Pike literally quoted a passage from the bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13

I won't argue that it was in good taste.

I feel bad for the person who wanted it on := lines because of sight issues.