> You said, "I don't want people who've ever used Go to work on nuclear operations."
Artistic license/ Rule of Funny. Using a correct form, wouldn't have been as funny.
Also yeah, it's supposed to be condescending. I was mocking the author, mirroring his condescension towards the Rust team (to paraphrase said - stop checkmarking GC, get crackin' on Rust; Wouldn't use Rust in a nuclear power plant).
You didn't say, "Don't use Go for nuclear operations."
You said, "I don't want people who've ever used Go to work on nuclear operations."
The former is perfectly reasonable. The latter is a gross over generalization and extremely condescending.
> Most people that program in Java don't have to worry too much about memory footprint
Here's a novel thought: not every programmer who uses Java has only used Java.