[jpgvm]

Yeah those are all good reasons to consider Go.

I think the static binary argument is a bit flat though.

With Java I don't even need to compile for multiple architectures, I can copy a fat-JAR onto any machine with a JVM and it will execute. i.e an artifact with exactly the same hash and no worries about Mac OS X DNS resolver weirdness or CGO nonsense.

[arccy]

but now you have the nonsense of dealing with jvm versions and choosing the right one

[jpgvm]

That is fairly overblown, especially post Java 9 (2017).

Generally speaking you just target a minimum version if you want to not distribute the JVM itself but these days most Java software is backend software, most of which is containerized, packaging the runtime with the code itself.

[cutler]

But bad news if you actually need a decent interface to C libraries.