Or, you know, you can avoid writing "crappy" code. - In Java - hardly. It requires a discipline and skills beyond capacity of a typical developer. This phenomen

Or, you know, you can avoid writing "crappy" code. - In Java - hardly. It requires a discipline and skills beyond capacity of a typical developer. This phenomena could be called "memory is cheap and JVM will handle everything". Even in Clojure code, for example, they implement a node of a binary tree as a hash-table which is a meaningless waste. Position based selectors would be good enough. Java's GC is better than Go's - yes, in theory, on paper. In practice well-written Go code could outperform typical Java code, even with less sophisticated GC. Of course, I cannot prove that, but there are some intuitions to support such claims.