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This is based on outdated advice.

Java stacks like Quarkus [1] have memory as low as 12MB and JVMs like OpenJ9 natively support CRIU for instant startup.

[1] https://quarkus.io

[2] https://blog.openj9.org/2022/10/14/openj9-criu-support-a-loo...

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Yet with Go you don't need to worry about comparing Java Stacks, changing your tooling, testing them etc, the binaries "just work" out the box in a near perfect condition.

Not really. We saw overall performance speed up when we limited the number of system threads for goroutines to 1. This was with Docker and Kubernetes (albeit several years ago). This was configured, if memory serves, by an environment variable.

So no, it's not as simple and perfect in my opinion.

Performance increasing when setting `GOMAXPROCS=1` sounds like an (interesting) edge case for the scheduler. If you ever encounter this again, it would be great to file an upstream issue about this. Go has plenty of built in observability tools (I imagine runtime/trace would be good here) so it'd be easy to get the developers the data they'd need.

I believe we tried, actually (this was at ZEIT, before it was Vercel, back when we used k8s to also deploy all of our user docker deployments - which of course wasn't the best idea but it worked for the time being).

I regrettably don't remember the outcome though, and don't use either of them anymore to even test them readily, especially not under the same load.

But that's because Go has a significantly worse ecosystem.

And those Go binaries aren't runnable across a wide range of platforms like JVM apps are.

I suppose it depends on what you're writing. When I read "wide range of platforms" I involuntarily said "who cares" out loud. For those of us (fortunately or unfortunately) working in distributed systems, there is one target environment and maybe a different local environment depending on your setup.

Likewise for "worse" ecosystem. It really depends on your context.

Edit: A closing thought: One thing I find enjoyable about working with Go is that it is tuned for my particular context. I also enjoy writing Java (and more specifically Kotlin) when that context changes (e.g. a desktop application).

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