Java dev who loves Go here. Go takes what I consider 'best practices' in Java, things like delegation-rather-than-inheritance, and manage-concurrency-through-B

Java dev who loves Go here. Go takes what I consider 'best practices' in Java, things like delegation-rather-than-inheritance, and manage-concurrency-through-BlockingQueues-and-ExecutorServices, and makes them the 'idiomatic' way to do things. It's not so much huge wins as a bunch of small wins, a much tighter stdlib, and making it much harder to do some common java antipatterns like implementation inheritance and overdone design patterns. Oh, and the C interop is amazing. The error handling, having to explicitly check return codes, seems like a huge burden at first but pays off later when you realize you can't have random exceptions bubbling all the way up the stack from anyplace in the code.