I don't know what your reaction to that response was, whether you stuck with acme or not, but I'm now looking for another language to use instead of Go.
I thought at first that this reaction was just sour grapes ("nasty people on the intertubes didn't like my post"), but as I analysed it more I managed to pull out three elements:
1. If my sense of elegance and the Go team's sense of elegance is this divergent, then the language will probably get uglier to my eyes as it continues to evolve.
2. If this is the reaction from the team to this (relatively small and inexpensive to fix) problem, then we can expect absolutely no movement at all on the bigger and harder problems (dependency versioning, generics). I used to have faith that these very smart people will come up with an elegant solution to these issues - I still love the simplicity and elegance of the standard library - but my faith has now gone.
3. Brad's response was amazing and I'd follow him anywhere, but... I don't want to follow the rest. If I'm to commit my time and effort to learning (and to a tiny extent popularising) the language and being part of the community, I want to believe in the people building it. I don't any more.
Humans are weird.
