JVM is gaining self-contained deployable package support, and as of recently, Kotlin supports a mode with LLVM-based native code generation. IMO, the fundament

JVM is gaining self-contained deployable package support, and as of recently, Kotlin supports a mode with LLVM-based native code generation. IMO, the fundamental advantages of Go over competing languages in the long run are its fast compile time and its combination of native code+garbage collection.