I promise not to argue, then, but I'm seriously interested to know why would anyone not like the JVM? (this isn't the first time I've heard this view, but I never asked before) I've been writing software for some 20 years now, and have never seen a more impressive environment (in terms of performance, pluggability, monitoring). Is it the startup time? The classpath? The monolithic JRE? (the last two annoy me, too, but they should be resolved in Java 9. I hope)

I guess the JVM is just too sophisticated for my taste.

I think Mies van der Rohe, if he were a coder, would like Go for all the same reasons that Java programmers don't like it.

Like I said, this is religion.

If Java works for you, phenomenal.

I'm not a big fan of languages that become corporate standards, or languages that are now controlled by companies like Oracle.

Perhaps this is just rebellion without cause... but I'm pretty happy worshiping my gods.

Fair enough.

I think Mies van der Rohe, if he were a coder, would like Go

Really? Not Clojure? :)

He would rather design chairs than use Clojure.