Personally I think Java is more verbose because of culture and one big feature go does not have - inheritance. Indeed some regret has been expressed by the Java

Personally I think Java is more verbose because of culture and one big feature go does not have - inheritance. Indeed some regret has been expressed by the Java authors on inheritance. The things you mention don’t bother me as much as pointless ceremony like getters, factories, and insane object hierarchies, all of which are really optional. I quite like Go and use it a lot, but it is not IMO radically different from Java in syntax, except perhaps in what it leaves out (inheritance, exceptions, explicit declarations), and its culture of radical simplicity.