[EhhhhSql]

Make it easy to ship code? C++ compilation is a nightmare & it's extremely expensive language to teach. JVM tuning is a nightmare and takes a while to setup (at which point it does run well relatively unattended, barring security fixes). With go, you practically need to work to avoid shipping an binary that can copy and run. You can learn the entire language in like two days and it can easily compile as you type with a decent latency to feedback (<1 second, in my experience). Its FFI is about as usable as JNI, maybe a little better once you get past the awkwardness of using a separate stack. Its GC is good enough with reasonable bounds.

Keep in mind, I use rust and c++, primarily. I just look over the fence at go and can appreciate what it does well.

[kaba0]

You don’t really need to tune the JVM for most applications other than setting a maximum heap size. More than likely you will make things worse than the defaults.

[wtetzner]

And I don't see how Go could be better in that respect, other than not allowing tuning. But that's really no different than not tuning the settings on the JVM.