No true scotsman? Even if you want to argue that Java CAN be made more terse, the vast majority of Java that exists today is incredibly verbose. Even running a Java program is verbose. Java is the only language I've used where it's more common to have a shell script that starts your Java program than just running ./helloworld.
And yes, Go is less verbose than Java. Go might require some boilerplate, but it is certainly much less verbose than Java.
No true scotsman? Even if you want to argue that Java CAN be made more terse, the vast majority of Java that exists today is incredibly verbose. Even running a Java program is verbose. Java is the only language I've used where it's more common to have a shell script that starts your Java program than just running ./helloworld.
And yes, Go is less verbose than Java. Go might require some boilerplate, but it is certainly much less verbose than Java.