This is the worst kind of comments on HN. Snarkiness without argumentation, condescension and depreciation of some good and interesting work. Just don't post anything instead. If you're salty or don't like Go, do yourself (and the community) a favor and don't click on submissions related to Go.

GP could also just cite related work and make a comment on the similarities and differences.

All languages borrow ideas from one another, and that’s good for all of us. I was once a Z80 developer, then a C developer, then Java and now Go. I don’t look at C and say “autoincrement! Those scallywags just copied the idea from LDIR!”

(Admittedly this is partly because it’s not true)