I'm sure this comment was written in good faith, but it doesn't belong at the top of this thread. It could be attached to virtually any post about Go. It barely engages with the actual post at all. Practically every other top-level comment below it is better.

And, of course, it spawned a completely useless thread litigating Java vs. Go. Perhaps that's why it's at the top of the thread --- which means voting had a perverse effect for this topic.

I don't know what to do about this tendency in language threads on HN, but it's a real problem.