> With regards to memory footprint - the difference here is that Java uses a minimum and maximum heap size that can be tuned with parameters. This has ... upsid

> With regards to memory footprint - the difference here is that Java uses a minimum and maximum heap size that can be tuned with parameters. This has ... upsides (upper bound on the maximum memory use of a process). If you're running a Go app in a container, you can use also tune the upper bound on memory use by restricting the available memory for the container.