Who cares about fairness? This isn't about whether you like Go, or like its creators. It's about the performance characteristics of the language. And there the

Who cares about fairness? This isn't about whether you like Go, or like its creators. It's about the performance characteristics of the language. And there the question is whether the comparison is representative, which sounds a bit like "fair", but isn't really the same thing.[0] The point about 20 years to optimize only matters so far as it gives you some reason to believe that Go will improve, and catch up or surpass Java. If your timeline is a decade or more, that's quite important. If your timeline is this year, it's not. [0] I think there's a lot of room to criticize this benchmark's representativeness. It's literally one case.