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I think Java is an ugly language riddled with roundabout ways of implementing modern features, but I can't fathom why anyone would pick Go over Java. It's slightly worse in almost every way other than writing shell scripts or massively parallel workloads from scratch.

In my experience, Java's problem is the same as C++'s when Java began to take over: you usually encounter it in projects stuck at ancient runtime versions, with ancient libraries, full of code nobody dares to touch in case something collapses. The same will happen to Go, and it'll happen to whatever popular language will displace Go as the trendy language to learn; it's just a consequence of keeping around legacy code and not spending the time and money on migrating as soon as possible.

parent jeroenhd 3 years ago

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