Saying there's a lot of hype around something is very interesting to me.

The hype cycle has well-known biases. Knowing when a product is peaking is helpful to me, in that I can basically ignore 95% of the noise about it.

This post is a fine example. He could have written exactly the same post about C, because he's basically saying "compiled binaries are easier to distribute". He's been blogging about Go for an entire two weeks. The only potentially new information here is "Go produces a binary."

That's not to say he shouldn't have written the post. He learned something and he shared it, which is great. It's just that nobody would be talking about the C version of the post, because that's not the hyped technology.