Yeah, it is unfortunate. My ranting was born from frustration that HN used to be a refuge from the usual pointless egotistical jibes as seen on other forums and social platforms. But over the years the quality of counterarguments has slowly been lowering to the level where it's now commonplace for people to make judgemental remarks about a persons ability based solely on a solitary semantical error (I obviously get the distinction between the two - I just wasn't aware they were described differently in literature).

I have amassed a large body of real world projects under my belt over the last 3 decades and have used Go for 6 of those years. I've written some pretty interesting stuff in Go like file systems compiled against FUSE and compilers. Yet I by no means consider myself an expert in anything - least of all Go - as to do so would imply I'm not open to learning something new (even basic things I somehow missed during my initial studies). Despite that I still find it highly offensive and unnecessary for someone who knows nothing about me to say "you have close to 0 Go experience." when I've clearly demonstrated and described various Go-isms prior to his or her remark.

Edit: weirdly I've got more down votes for this comment than my last one. I guess some people think rudeness is acceptable. Sad times.