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> I absolutely love using Go. The logical flows for my programs...

> Go is super productive. My day-to-day responsibilities include...

> Nothing gets out of the way better than Go.

> Go as a new language is a mega success.

I'm guessing you're OK with these, and maybe it's just negative opinions that are irrelevant?

I'm not the person you're responding to, but I think there is a difference between positive and negative posts in this context.

Negativity is inherently bad. There is a place for it, of course, but when it's off-topic it's especially unwelcome in my opinion. And programming language discussion already has far too much negativity.

Many people find the "pozzy vibes only" philosophy much more annoying than relentless cynicism, which can at least be refuted by just ignoring it & building stuff.

I don't know about that. I find relentless cynicism/negativity to be much more difficult to ignore than positive comments. I tend to think this is how we are wired as humans.

I find both positivity and negativity annoying, bleh! ;)

Joke aside, how about we all complain about your favourite language in every post? It over time becomes irrelevant to those who grok the language.

It's pretty much guaranteed there can't be anything posted about Go without that predictable comment on how bad it is. It's very repetitive, and hence annoying and not adding value.

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