We live in the age of shills and sheeple now. A few smart people controlling the narrative over large groups. Don't think the people trying to manipulate you aren't evolving and honing their strategies. Psy-ops and thought manipulation are widely documented practices. In the age we live in we must be vigilant and accept that we are probably being subtly manipulated by corporate interests, unfortunately. Is the poster claiming golang to be a fetish language of HN to distract from the fact that swift is the real fetish language? Am I a shill? No way. No way to know.

The good news is that the corporations who do it have to keep a lot of it secret so it's hard for all of them to align their interests and they end up competing with each other.