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Comment by icholy | Hacker News Reader

Idiomatic Java has much more boilerplate than idiomatic Go.

  if e3 != nil {
    return _, e3
  }

over and over and over..

Control flow is not boilerplate, that's the application logic.

It's boilerplate compared to languages with exceptions where this code isn't necessary, or Rust where the equivalent code is:

e3?

^ Go could very easily add this syntax, but haven't for some reason.

Idioms change, java can be much less boilerplate today.

Java has generics

Sounds like you're not aware of the changes since Java 8 (2014). This is idiomatic Java nowadays: http://sparkjava.com

Unfortunately not many developers are.

Sorry, Android doesn't have all of Java 8 and it's mostly Kotlin now.