[pyjug]

Sorry, I didn’t mean to come off condescending at all, it was a genuine question! At the end of the day, these are all just tools and people have their preferences. I try not to get too attached to any of them personally.

Also, if it wasn’t clear I was addressing programmers with experience in more than 1 language, not absolute beginners. If someone who is learning Go as their first language, I wholeheartedly endorse learning it! (Although Python would be better :-))

[jchw]

Well, I apologize for taking it the wrong way. I hope that others who agreed with you read it the way it was intended and not the way that I did. I still think the answer to the question is a bit obvious; plenty of Go devs used Java before Go. That said, I would guess that most people who have migrated away from Java did so before it became more modernized.