These days a lot of the decisions behind which language a person chooses are down to personal preference. So the following points I raise are my personal preferences rather than stating one approach is "better" than another:
For me, that blandness brings great simplicity - which makes it refreshingly easy to learn and write code in that language. It also helps with those "what the hell was I drinking when I wrote that code" moments that even the best of us suffer from time to time.
Also I love the brevity of the code required to build something in Go. I find Java frustratingly verbose.
Lastly, Java is in many ways more portable than Go (compiled Jar's are platform independent and JRE's have been ported to more platforms than Go's compiler), Go's compiler makes targeting other OS's and architectures a doddle plus it's sometimes more convenient to ship a static ELF / PE without worrying about having the appropriate runtime environment at the destination.
There are some things I miss from Go that are present in Java (amongst other languages) such as better support for GUI development, more flexible namespaces and such like. But, for now, Go addresses more desires than it creates complaints.
For me, that blandness brings great simplicity - which makes it refreshingly easy to learn and write code in that language. It also helps with those "what the hell was I drinking when I wrote that code" moments that even the best of us suffer from time to time.
Also I love the brevity of the code required to build something in Go. I find Java frustratingly verbose.
Lastly, Java is in many ways more portable than Go (compiled Jar's are platform independent and JRE's have been ported to more platforms than Go's compiler), Go's compiler makes targeting other OS's and architectures a doddle plus it's sometimes more convenient to ship a static ELF / PE without worrying about having the appropriate runtime environment at the destination.
There are some things I miss from Go that are present in Java (amongst other languages) such as better support for GUI development, more flexible namespaces and such like. But, for now, Go addresses more desires than it creates complaints.