Java and Go are pretty similar at the language level, and you&#x27;re right that the advantages of both are more applicable in large systems. For a small business situation something like Ruby may well be a better choice.<p>Java has a more powerful type system (though still poor by modern standards). Both have weaknesses regarding error handling - Go encourages you to err on the side of repetitive code, Java encourages you to err on the side of handling errors only at very high level, I&#x27;m not sure which is worse. Java has a much bigger ecosystem and better tool support, though a lot of it is written for pre-C10K days and assumes a &quot;1 thread per connection&#x2F;request&quot; model - but frankly for a small business type situation that&#x27;s fine. The go concurrency model is overkill at the low end and not flexible enough at the high end, but if you&#x27;re in the sweet spot then you can write code more efficiently there than in Java.