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I’ve always seen Go as far more like Java than C. They facilitate the use cases. Go isn’t a good C replacement for mostly the same reasons Java is not.

People are adopting Kotlin, I’ve seen many coworkers using it for new projects. It becomes a bit more complex if you’re trying to integrate it into an existing large code base, of which there are many in Java.



Go is being used for system programming, that's not what Java is for


You should go read about embedded Java: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Java or define what you mean by system programming.


nobody significant uses it in linux and cloud space nowadays

don't give me the crap that java is for system programming just because java can, it doesn't mean anything if nobody significant is using it

any programming language can system programming as well if you go by that definition, python, lua, javascript




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