> Not only did Google not write Fucshia in Go, they explicitly made it a forbidden language (listing a litany of reasons to exclude it and any other GC language -- the same reasons that apply to most "low-level" code), they set a goal to migrate any parts imported in. Maybe not the best example.

It helps when the Go guy on the team is no longer there to argue for it.

> Which programming language would one write "COM" in? ....

VB 6, Delphi, .NET, C++ Builder, C++/CX, C++ with MFC/ATL/WRL, whatever language speaks the COM ABI.

Yeah, maybe you were doing it wrong.

> The "Linux bubble" comment is especially weird. I spend my day in macOS, with most of my day being in XCode slinging Swift and GoLand spinning Go. Somehow I can evaluate the world without trying to mangle it to fit whatever my current primary skills are.

Good for you then, happy future.