[apta]

> There are some great pieces of tech that really push the boundaries forward in areas of scheduling and garbage collection.

There have been very low latency garbage collectors way before golang, see offerings by Azul for instance.

[webpaymentsguy]

Zing by Azul is very cool from what I've heard engineers talk about as well as marketing, though it being a proprietary beast definitely affects people considering using Java over Go.

[apta]

The JVM is shipping with two low latency collectors (currently in experimental stage): ZGC and Shenandoah.