By having an overly simplistic language, you end up pushing more complexity onto the programmer and into the code base. There is no free lunch.
I find it much more sane to solve and express code in Java. You get terser, more to the point code that reflects the underlying logic more clearly, compared to having to read many lines or pages to understand what's going on.
Sure, I just don't see this as a problem.
As a result you have
a) a number of third party packages to chose from depending on your needs\opinions
b) you have a more verbose codebase, some people find it harder to deal witih while I find it easier to deal with.
>compared to having to read many lines or pages to understand what's going on.
Different people different ways of thinking I guess.
In my eyes Java code looks to much like a specification in for of a code. Easier to do a code review but harder to actually understand how it works. And I personally need this dive into internals to actually feel confident about the code.
>Could you elaborate on exactly what complexity in Java you're referring to?
I don't have too much experience in Java, but from what I've seen - Java has too many abstractions and OOP for the sake of paradigm and nothing else.
UPD: adezxc's comment is a good addition to mine
I don't want to learn about Gradle or Maven to understand how a package is working, I'd rather do it in code.
Consider even the current "Hello, world" example in Java (Yes, I know about the proposal about simplifying it), it is tedious, why would I need to understand public/private and classes before launching a simple program?
I fully agree it is a terrific piece of software, especially for industry-grade applications, yet it just isn't attractive.
Main thing IMO, is that you can start out writing pretty good Go code after 24 hours and just improve on your skills as a general programmer. With Java, after a few months you would still need to know about some methods or OOP tips/tricks, design patterns etc. to become proficient.
Many of the design patterns are useless bullshit, that is long superseded by a language feature, so that point doesn’t stand imo.
Go also has public/protected, it is just case-specific. If anything, that makes it harder to understand, how should I knew that Asd is different from asd beforehand?
Go reserved keywords: break, default, func, interface, select, case, defer, go, map, struct, chan, else, goto, package, switch, const, fallthrough, if, range, type, continue, for, import, return, var
Java reserved keywords: abstract, continue, for, new, switch, assert, default, goto*, package, synchronized, boolean, do, if, private, this, break, double, implements, protected, throw, byte, else, import, public, throws, case, enum, instanceof, return, transient, catch, extends, int, short, try, char, final, interface, static, void, class, finally, long, strictfp, volatile, const, float, native, super, while.
By reading docs or some kind of "Go by Example"? The same way you learned the difference between `private` and `protected`.
