[liampulles]

I'm glad to hear that, I'll bear this in mind if a kotlin opportunity comes up.

If we're still talking big differences with Go, then another big advantage for me is monorepo management in Go. The fact that I can declare a new binary by just making a new folder with a main.go file in it is huge. It makes it very easy to solve adhoc problems that come up by making a new tool that uses existing classes in my main service code. And it means that build times are not a consideration when thinking about adding new microservices, because Go's ability to cache compilation is very effective at making compilation near instant.

In defense of Java/Kotlin, I think writing tests and mocking things is significantly easier in that ecosystem - AOP really does help a lot in that arena IMO.