2 years ago

The Go programming language community got an update to its code of conduct (CoC) this week, which seems to have coincided with the permanent ban of Peter Bourgon, a prominent and prolific Go contributor and community member, from all Golang community spaces. Go first adopted a code of conduct in 2015, which even then was far from a universally accepted thing, and later updated that CoC in 2018, to include behavior outside of explicitly Go-related spaces, but it would seem that neither would suffice.

For those of you not members of the Go Slack channel, the entire interaction has also been preserved on Imgur for your perusal, and, as you can see, Bourgon responds when asked to stop, “this is the internet.”

It is this repeated offense that Heckman complains of in his conduct report and that, at least to an outside observer, might have led to the situation at hand.

You are being silly, and this is the outcome of it.