This line of reasoning seems to make it hard to suggest that certain things are and aren't idiomatic in different languages without being accused of being closed-minded and hostile. If I read an article claiming that Ruby sucks because of some project where the developer decided to use a Makefile instead of bundler, I would say "the developer should have used bundler!", and you could accuse me of the same hostility you're accusing Go proponents of here. Conventions really do exist for a reason, and really should be followed until you understand them well enough to reject them for a good reason.
I'll see your anecdotes with my own; I've had nothing but extremely pleasant interactions with the Go community and think it is much less closed-minded and condescending than most.
