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Because not everyone cares about the startup time of an application on a platform that is 10 times slower than an intel CPU from 2012 when the application runs for more than a minute?

Also why are you even considering go as modern? The best compiled alternative to java is D and it's possible to disable the stop the world pause for specific threads by detaching them from the runtime which make it useful for realtime workloads while still being able to take advantage of the GC to boost your productivity when determinism is not important.