Comment by Cthulhu_
It kinda is if you're thinking about the manual-coffee-grinder-french-press hipster who eschews automatic coffee makers. Rob Pike doesn't believe in syntax highlighting and to date the Go website / interactive editor doesn't have any. "When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things."
Anyway, that's fine, I like Go and I like grinding coffee manually on occasion.
Funny, I have a similar analogy when it comes to mice: Small children lacking verbal communication skills can only point at things, which is the equivalnet of using a"pointing device". When they grow up, they learn to speak meaningful sentences to express themselves. Which is equvalent to learning to use the command line...