And Java has non-trivial advantage over Go of being arch-independent. So one can just run and debug on Mac Arm the same deployment artifact that runs on x86 server.
Plus these days Java GC has addressed most of the problems that plagued Java on backend for years. The memory usage is still higher than with Go simply because more dynamic allocations happens due to the nature of the language, but GC pauses are no longer a significant problem. And if they do, switching to Go would not help. One needs non-GC language then.
go can ship as a static exe, can't be simpler to deploy, until java has this built-in, I'll stick with go for my cross platform choice
If you're building tools that need to be deployed to machines, Go/Rust with their static binaries make a lot of sense. But for backend web services, it's hard not to go with Java imo.
fwiw - My favorite language is Rust, but Async Rust has ruined it for me.
Yeah, async Rust is needlessly difficult. I can't quite put my finger on it but having to sift through 10+ crates docs definitely left a very sour taste when I had to modernize one tokio 0.1 app to a 1.x one.
I do love Rust a lot as well but most of the time I am finding myself using either Elixir or Golang.