Makes sense. I'd be proud if I was behind React and humble if I was behind Angular

You're comparing the wrong things. The correct comparison would be with Polymer, which Google is pouring far more resources into than Angular.

I'd be humble about Polymer too

I don't see Polymer going anywhere either. The hype about web components have been drowned by React, which is here, now, and also solves several other issues that web components don't solve (especially along with something fluxy).

Citation needed.

Google is trying to make web better by bringing things like Service Workers not by releasing Libraries.

Make sense now?

I would expect a company hosting their own conference to be excited about it!

Yeah, especially the Go guys /s.

Except golang team, who else from google provided competitive SDK, framework, library to developers?

Yea Rob Pike is a really humble person.

I agree!

Fanboyism is such a hip with HN crowd. Not ready to listen to anything, as if downvotes and upvotes could really do anything!