* the major players all solve this specific problem outside the lang core
* Dave Cheney is so involved with the project, you could easily consider him part of the "go team." Both in contributions and community pull.
* This very article is not about a problem, it's about a solution. It's literally Dave Cheney saying: wow, look at this important problem, and look at all the reasons why it's important. Here is a solution and all its pros and cons. Regardless of how you feel, the timing of your comment simply could not have been further off.
* More generally: Go is one of the most batteries-included languages I know. From the stdlib to the tooling (which is still part of the official release), it's all in there. When did you last try to create platform and architecture independent binaries without any prior knowledge in, I don't know; C? Even Python?
I really want to like this comment, believe me I do. But it is so out of tune with the article, I can't.
This article is almost literally about the opposite of everything you just wrote.
Wait, is he not officially part of the go team?