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..
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.