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This seems very counter-productive.

A quick find-in-page, also reveals a skew towards older articles. Some of these might not be relevant anymore.

2012 - 19

2013 - 20

2014 - 60

2015 - 84

2016 - 26

2017 - 18

2018 - 6

It does raise the question if there’s less complaining now because older issues have been resolved.

A quick scrolling through the list shows various issues that have indeed been resolved:

- GOPATH is a mess (not needed anymore)

- bad dependency management (Go now has a somewhat conventional package manager built in)

- immature GC (now one of the best of breed)

- slow JSON parsing (has significantly improved since 2015)

Also, a large part of the supposed evidence for "not good" is a matter of taste.