alt Hacker NewsGo can't compete with Java bc it's not in the same category as Java.
- Java is a high-level, multi-paradigm programming language
- Go is designed as a systems language to supersede C projects at Google
Now Go identifies as a general purpose language that competes with Java? It's a free country, I guess.
How is Go not high level? What makes it "systems" language? That's just marketing.
It is a language with a fat runtime, running a garbage collector. You just burn it into the binary and call it a day.