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Author here.

This is my experience, though I started in Java and transitioned to C.

My C code also does not need to be updated for language changes and such.

How do you feel about Go if you've ever worked with it? It seems like it was intended to solve exactly those types of pain points associated with maintaining Java programs

I'm not the person you responded to, but my biggest complaint with Go is binary size. It makes it rather unusable for low level programs on resource constrained systems.

Go is fine, but I'm not really a fan.

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