Possibly because Rob Pike is not a fan of syntax highlighting, calling it juvenile.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s...

Wow, his second response is really demeaning. Or maybe it's just a shock to me after hanging out in really friendly communities (Elixir etc.) for a while...

On the whole I've found the golang community to be quite positive and enforcing good norms about crappy behavior. I wouldn't assume too much from a post Rob made 4 years ago.

Pike literally quoted a passage from the bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13

I won't argue that it was in good taste.

If by "literally quoted", you mean paraphrased... Or is this just another case where literally doesn't mean literally?

No. Sorry. I should have linked to the NASB translation, which was the source of his (literal) quote.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...

I feel bad for the person who wanted it on := lines because of sight issues.

Maybe it has to do something with the fact that Go's grammar is modest in size, being only 25 keywords. Compare that with C99 - 37, C++11 - 84, Rust 52 etc.