As a C, Go and Javascript programmer (nearly 10 years of experience with both of them), I really feel what the author is saying when they say there are too many ways to do something and fighting the compiler. There comes a point when the languages quirks start to eat into your productivity.

That being said, I have a feeling that the author lacks programming expertise to develop a language (I am not saying this in an offensive way). They are dodging things that are needed to build a language (memory management, choices of libraries etc.).