[jen20]

The points about tooling certainly do not apply to Java, for example, Maven vs Gradle (which is a huge mess in and of itself - do you use Kotlin or Groovy), and which plugins are you willing to pull in? Or is Ant still the thing? SpotBugs, Spotless? What test framework do you use? Do you use Mockito or one of the myriad alternatives?

Go has _none_ of this nonsense, and it's better for it. Nor does Rust, FWIW, which IMO is also a better target language than Java for just about everything.

[cryptos]

Gradle could be used as an AI benchenmark on its own! The syntax of plugin DSLs changes all the time. Special credits could be achieved for handling old (Groovy) and new versions (Kotlin) of Gradle itself.