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That’s not enough to justify the (10s, 100?) millions of dollars of investment. Java is faster and safe and can do everything go can do. C++ can be even faster (at least there are no pauses from a gc) at the cost of some safety.

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The fact that Go has gained so much adoption probably justifies that investment. They are completely different languages and much of it is personal preference.

> Java is faster and safe and can do everything go can do.

Including generating static binaries without the use of requiring to download a runtime?

Yup, with everything else being equal, given the choice I will always use the project written in Go.

Yes, there were AOT compilers availbe for Java since 2000. But more recently, Graal creates very nice binaries.

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