People have an irrational hate for it based on the enterprise cruft and horrible third party frameworks you can just completely ignore if you build a new thing
It's not good for commandline stuff but for a long running small service it is pretty great
That's a big if. In practice you're not going to be able to escape needing to interface with Java code others have written. What then? You either waste time putting up shims in front of every single API or, more likely, give up and just go with it, at which point you've lost.
It is much more practical to choose a language that does not have a terrible history of poor API design to begin with.
^ this! Java's far more capable than golang and a better choice for many projects.. just don't use the decades old "Enterprise" stuff.
..and I'm generally a Java-hater as the language itself is objectively inferior to my beloved C#.. but even then there are situations where Java is a better choice.
People have an irrational hate for it based on the enterprise cruft and horrible third party frameworks you can just completely ignore if you build a new thing
It's not good for commandline stuff but for a long running small service it is pretty great