Go is slowly becoming Java 1.5+ -- see the addition of generics. Btw, you can AOT compile Java if you wish... it'll probably be a larger binary than a Go binar

Go is slowly becoming Java 1.5+ -- see the addition of generics. Btw, you can AOT compile Java if you wish... it'll probably be a larger binary than a Go binary, but that's whatever... [Meta] ... God, I'm turning in pjlmp here, lol