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    "We don't have have to go into the details of this" is disingenuous. We can't go into this because he was banned in violation of their own policies for a second time.

    You can carry all the water you want for the Go people, but their handling of this is unprofessional, and it's not the first time they've treated non-Googlers with utter disrespect for no particular gain. This behavior dates back at least as far as issue #9 in their original bug tracker[1], when the most they could muster for their part was the "Unfortunate" bug label, presumably as in "it's unfortunate for you that we're going to do whatever the hell we want."

    Go's biggest problem isn't generics, or modules, or the infrastructure, or any other technical issue; it's that the creators are the worst sort of ivory-tower academics who have never had to cooprate with anyone outside their friend circle. They get away with it because they ensconce themselves as a club in organizations who can afford to pay people to work in DevRel vacuums, and I'm sure they consider themselves very successful, but Go is easily the most toxically-run language project since the BFDL days of glibc.

    I have it easy, since I have the autonomy to decide never to get involved with these people, but not everyone has that privilege, and you're not doing the situation any favors by torchbearing for jerks.

    https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

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