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I don't think so. Go looks to be focusing mostly on systems-level problems and the kinds of applications that orbit that concern.

Java, on the other hand--at least when you control for the confusion around whether "Java" referred to the JVM, the language, the base class library, or the security model--was looking to take on C++ and the kinds of software people were looking to write in 1996 in C++.

You can write line of business software in Go, but that doesn't really feel like its purpose in life. The language fights you a little bit when you try to do that.