I tried Go for the same reasons. It looked to me like a statically typed Java, but in practice it was not the best experience. The Code is not more expressive t

I tried Go for the same reasons. It looked to me like a statically typed Java, but in practice it was not the best experience. The Code is not more expressive than Java, but you lose all the good libs and tools from Java. Most annoying was the in ability to create concise mocks, because you cannot implement interfaces at runtime with Go.