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Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by krylon on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:27PM (#9525908)
Well, yes. But Java's standard library is also huge and full of deprecated stuff. I have not done a lot of Java programming, but when I did play around with Java, I found myself spending most of the time actually browsing through the standard library's documentation (which is, to be fair, really, really good) looking for stuff.

Also, Java has a head start of nearly 15 years on Go, and the Java community is (or used to be, at least) pretty huge.

Not that this invalidates your point.

Re:Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives by gravypod on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @10:04AM (#9531804)
Add an extra 30 years to that. Java's designers didn't history of computer science and language development for the of sake "simplicity". (Generics, error handling, etc.)