Well, since the people behind Go did not up front say anything about the language/compiler being specifically targeted at 64-bit platforms, I would expect someone more mature from the Go team to step up and say something like "We are sorry, we didn't foresee the consequences of some design decisions and hence screwed it up." and either "We will fix it ASAP" or "We cannot fix it because XYZ". They might not take money for their work directly from the users, but there is still some moral obligation if you create something, release it to the world, praise its virtues and persuade people to use it. As it can be seen in the thread, lots of people already invested lots of time into building things with Go and now they're in serious trouble. Instead, many people in this thread try to somehow downplay the problem, advocate changing hardware (that's something quite new in the programming language world) or following some pretty absurd guidelines. This might or might not be representative of the whole community around Go, but it surely leaves a bad taste, hence the slight irony.