Why go for Java when you can go for .NET? Or Go? .NET seems to perform on par and seems to produce smaller executable, and Go seems to be faster in general. Pe

Why go for Java when you can go for .NET? Or Go? .NET seems to perform on par and seems to produce smaller executable, and Go seems to be faster in general. Personally I don't really care what language common tools are written in (except for programs written in C(++), but I'll gladly use those after they've had a few years to catch most of the inevitable the memory bugs). I think the difference is that there aren't many languages with projects that actually end up writing full suite replacements. There's a lot of unexpected complexity hidden within simple binaries that need to be implemented in a compatible way so scripts don't explode at you, and that's pretty tedious work. I know of projects in Rust and Zig that intend to be fully compatible, but I don't know if any in Java+GraalVM or Go. I wouldn't pick Zig for a distro until the language hits 1.0, though. If these projects do exist, someone could probably compare them all in a compatibility and performance matrix to figure out which distribution is the fastest+smallest, but I suspect Rust may just end up winning in both areas there.