From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;icad.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;icad.html</a><p>&quot;We know that Java must be pretty good, because it is the cool, new programming language. Or is it? If you look at the world of programming languages from a distance, it looks like Java is the latest thing. (From far enough away, all you can see is the large, flashing billboard paid for by Sun.)&quot;<p>s&#x2F;Java&#x2F;Go&#x2F;g
s&#x2F;Sun&#x2F;Google&#x2F;g<p>Not to say that Go is a bad language (I&#x27;d certainly rather use it than Java!), but looking at the language itself to try to identify the reasons for its relative success is doomed to fail.