He is a person who wrote a lucid description of what many, myself included, see as fundamental issues with Go. Yet he does so without anthropomorphizing it. Reading the first paragraph reveals:

"I like Go. I use it for a number of things (including this blog, at the time of writing). Go is useful. With that said, Go is not a good language. It's not bad; it's just not good."

Since Mr. Gerrand decided to take cheap shots at other languages, I felt it best to present the community with genuine criticisms of the Go language which were _not_ expressed in that style.

> Since Mr. Gerrand decided to take cheap shots at other languages

I don't think I was taking any kind of "cheap shot." It is literally the origin story of Go. Google has a few unreasonably large C++ projects and the incredible build infrastructure to make that possible. It was in part Rob's dissatisfaction with this state of affairs that triggered the first discussions of Go.