I'm not objecting to you choosing not learn something in depth because you don't like how it looks on the surface (that's a rational approach to avoiding wasting time, which is a valuable resource), I'm objecting to you, in the linked article, commenting in depth (and inaccurately) on something its clear that you decided not to learn in depth because you didn't like how it looks on the surface.
The statement that Go has "no exceptions", or that for deep error handling in your own code you have to handle errors at each level is false. And, fine, you didn't learn anything about it because maybe you saw sample code showing how you need to deal with the public API of common libraries because of the Go convention that panics aren't exposed across public APIs. And if all you said was that, it'd be fine -- but you went beyond that and said things that weren't true and which people who haven't learned the language might not realize were statements from ignorance rather than experience, and might turn them off of the language where they wouldn't be turned off if they knew the truth, because if they were true, they'd be real and deep problems with the language design.
Choosing to remain ignorant about Go because it doesn't seem like its worth your time to learn is fine. Making up stories about why you don't like Go that aren't grounded in anything real is not.
TL;DR: if you choose to be ignorant, you don't get to pretend to be an authority.
> Turned off the language because of me? Again hardly - if you like Go's standard library you like it, and if you don't panic/defer will probably not change your mind.
I'm not worried about people who have learned Go getting turned off by inaccurate comments about it not having exceptions, I'm concerned about people who might read your piece before learning much on their own. If people believe your claim that Go has no exceptions and that multi-level error handling in your own code has to be done the way you described, that could turn people off of Go whether they like the standard library or not (and before they even decide whether to try it at all.)
