[ashtonkem]

So, it depends on what you’re talking about; language or organizational need.

Go is an imperfect match for Java The language, largely because of the whole Generics thing. But if you’re talking about how teams use Java and Go, they’re a good match now.

Go was designed for large companies like Google to have a huge number of engineers and produce consistent, quality code, all while constantly on boarding people and moving them around. From an organizational perspective there are a ton of Java shops that use Java for similar reasons, plus the ability to cheaply and quickly acquire contractors who know Java.

[pjmlp]

Both, people comparing Go to Java apparently lack a complete understanding of the Java universe.

If you are talking about doing REST APIs, talking to Postgres in Java 1.0 servlets style code, yeah Go is a replacement for Java.

Except that is like 1% of everything that is currently being done in Java.