There were good reasons to switch to Java. In some contexts, it was clearly better. Most of its bloat hadn't happened yet. It had an axe to grind, but it was a

There were good reasons to switch to Java. In some contexts, it was clearly better. Most of its bloat hadn't happened yet. It had an axe to grind, but it was a popular axe back then. There are good reasons to switch to Go (mainly: fast compiles, WYSIWYG syntax, tooling, standards, a good library, and static compiles). In some contexts, it is clearly better. It isn't bloated, and unlike Java, the authors don't seem inclined to make it so, nor do they have any axe to grind except simplicity.