> I guess your point about it feeling handcrafted holds, if you count the character encoding.

Magnificent!

> You may want to review the author's background before dismissing their points for not being in a shiny deck.

Well, Wikipedia presents him as the author of Go, so the OP might have a point. /s

OTOH not knowing about Rob Pike and programming in UNIX, sounds strange.

The argument should hold regardless of who a person is or what they did. I commented being ignorant of this person's reputation and achievements. But so what? It shouldn't matter. I'm targeting the argument, not the person.

I still think his slides aren't great. I wasn't dismissing his weak analysis because of the deck but making the point that he's weakening his own argument with it. And since his points specifically include a lot of comments about the modern web, complete with a rant about frames per second, I think it's a fair point to make.