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If you use Scala for your view layer, why would you even want to use Go for your back end?

Very true. I am starting to not see the point of Go. It's about the same performance as the JVM languages and the JVM is just as easy to deploy. On the JVM you get to choose between Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Groovy, Kotlin, and more. JVM is just as easy to deploy as a Go binary too. Personally, I plan to stick with JVM languages plus Rust.

Here is how to see the point of Go:

Open the rosettacode web site. Choice any algorithm you are familiar with. Place Go version and Java version. Compare the number of words and lines.

Compare the Maven hell with how Go solves the same problems.

So, a more succinct Java, that can't leverage the JVM ecosystem? Why is that better than Scala, which can also be more succinct than Java, but can leverage the JVM ecosystem?

Go is enormously simpler than Scala.

(I also don't agree that the deployment story for the JVM and Go are similarly complex, but that's a different argument).

I bet my Clojure or Groovy version will be simpler. I agree Scala is super complex :). Maven does suck. Gradle wraps it and does not suck. Probably the best build tool I have ever seen.

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