I think the reason why this misconception is so widespread is because there is a grain of truth in it, because almost everyone sees Java synonymous with giganti

I think the reason why this misconception is so widespread is because there is a grain of truth in it, because almost everyone sees Java synonymous with gigantic framework like spring, quarkus etc. In go you've got your standard libraries, these are generally quicker than the Java equivalent simply because they do less in the lifecycle of the operation. This lets Java do funky stuff like enabling full jvm/code tracing just by adding a jar file at runtime. But it does come with a performance penalty.