[tszming]

Most of the benefits he explained in the post also apply to Java (e.g. easy to use, GC, type system & concurrency).

IMHO, if a programmer only know PHP and want to explore, I would suggest Java/Scala/Python/Ruby as the next language instead of Go.

[luriel]

Java and Go's type systems are very different, Go's is much more lightweight, had implicit interfaces (aka "static duck typing") and has an improved form of composition instead of inheritance.

And concurrency in Go compared to Java is like day and night.

Then there is the simplicity and clarity of the standard libraries, and so on.

[tszming]

The difference between Go and Java is one issue which I have no interest to argue, but if you read the whole article in detail and will find `most of the features` he discussed are already provided by Java.

1. Golang is a compiled language with a static type system. You have no chance to confuse veriable types

2. You must have already felt some powerlessness to PHP. It dosen’t have concurrent mechanism build-in..

3. Golang has GC, there is no need to care about memory management

4. Golang is also a C family’s programming language. Eh… with a litte syntax difference.

and more..