Java 21 is pretty damn nice, 25 will be even nicer.
For your own application code, you don't have to use exceptions you can write custom Result objects and force callers to pattern match on the types (and you can always wrap library/std exceptions in that result type).
Structured Concurrency looks like a banger of a feature - it's what CompletableFuture should've been.
VirtualThreads still needs a few more years for most production cases imo, but once it's there, I truly don't see a point to choose Go over Java for backend web services.
For your own application code, you don't have to use exceptions you can write custom Result objects and force callers to pattern match on the types (and you can always wrap library/std exceptions in that result type).
Structured Concurrency looks like a banger of a feature - it's what CompletableFuture should've been.
VirtualThreads still needs a few more years for most production cases imo, but once it's there, I truly don't see a point to choose Go over Java for backend web services.