I was trying to be charitable given that I haven't seriously used Java in quite a while and have seen some indications that the JVM can be speedier (it _has_ ha

I was trying to be charitable given that I haven't seriously used Java in quite a while and have seen some indications that the JVM can be speedier (it _has_ had an incredible amount of optimization work done on it). But, yeah, my experience with Go matches yours. It's really amazingly light on resource usage.