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In Java's defense its TLS stack and frameworks using it have grown organically over 20 years. Let's see how Go is doing with consistency in 2030.



It's not time that makes Java's TLS stack bad; it's that the TLS stacks are afterthoughts. Java could be competitive with Go if it attracted someone of Langley's caliber to manage a coherent, designed-for-security TLS stack, and then the ecosystem was managed to ensure that everyone used that stack.




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