[cgag]

I'm not sure if it's because the JVM has a bad rep or people like the familiar feeling of Go (smaller learning curve) or some other reason, but it surprises me so many people jump to Go for performance similar to what you'd get on a modern JVM language (Clojure, Scala), but with less expressiveness, fewer libraries, and (I believe) less tooling.

Of course this only really applies to long running apps (web servers), if startup time matters then certainly Go wins.

Perhaps I need to try Go out, but I just don't see what the selling point is.

[fauigerzigerk]

People are trying to get as much space as possible between themselves and the Java community's culture of complexity. I don't think it's a technology issue.

[adamc]

"the Java community's culture of complexity" -- great evocative phrase.

[pjmlp]

s/Java/Enterprise/g

[azth]

> but it surprises me so many people jump to Go for performance similar to what you'd get on a modern JVM language

In a word: hype. If Go did not have the Google brand name attached to it, it wouldn't have gone anywhere.