> The amusing thing is that the creators of Go are some of the fiercest critics of Java, but they have created something that seems to follow a very similar philosophy to the original Java. I guess it remains to be seen if Go will have added as many features in 15 years time as Java has in the last 15.

Funny you should say that, because IIRC they also have stated that one of the reasons they are so skeptical of adding features to the language is that Java started out as nice and simple language that was a great alternative to what was available at the time, and that they don't want to repeat the mistakes of what happened after that.