It is possible to compile Java and C# binaries. It is true that it is not as common and they were not designed that way, but I think this difference is mostly a

It is possible to compile Java and C# binaries. It is true that it is not as common and they were not designed that way, but I think this difference is mostly an implementation detail. I think these are indeed the best comparison languages to Go. They're all mature statically checked languages with good garbage collectors and concurrency features.