I've only ever read through Go tutorials but never used it. I've used Java in a small capacity, and while I found some things convenient, some other things were

I've only ever read through Go tutorials but never used it. I've used Java in a small capacity, and while I found some things convenient, some other things were also pointlessly restrictive. For example that syntactic overhead, having to wrap everything in a class. You can't even have a global variable without typing your fingers sore. Pretty sure that Go isn't equally restrictive (while still being garbage collected).