I think there is something to say for compiling to native code, having binaries in the ~25 MiB range, being able to run in distroless containers, being able to run a web application with less than 100MiB of memory and startup times measured in milliseconds rather than seconds (sometimes dozens of seconds).
Don't get me wrong, I like Java and don't very much like the Go language. But Java has a lot to improve upon still.
Don't get me wrong, I like Java and don't very much like the Go language. But Java has a lot to improve upon still.