As the classic saying says: there are languages everyone complains about and languages that are not (actually) used. Verbosity is usually a _good_ think especially in large code bases with large number of people (where every successful startup will eventually get)
If verbosity would be a good thing Java wouldn't introduce language features/ library enhancements to cut down the noise (var, collection factories, switch expressions, records).
Java is verbose because it's inexpressive, not because it's good at documenting. It's Objective-C with everything too interesting removed, but they never added enough of it back.
The only things left from Objective-C that actually matter are AOT (always available in commercial JDKs) and value types (Vahlhala will hopefully be ready some day).
The longstanding lack of generics (which has been remedied aside) who really complains about golang?
The reality is Java truly shows its age. Its dogmatic insistance on pure OOP and the enormous numbers of horrifyingly unintuitive design patterns adopted by the community cause even the most well intentioned engineering culture to eventually produce ugly codebases.
At this point if you're stuck in the JVM ecosystem you're almost certainly better off with Scala (which indeed is actually used) or the newer Kotlin.
In a way, for all the shit people give C++ modern C++ codebases are actually quite pleasant and the language is very flexible. Would I encourage its use for general production systems? Not really. That crowns is Golang's.
Come on, golang is as expressive as java 1.1. Java is much much less verbose and more readable than go, but for some reason the latter’s proponents can’t see it..
