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One of the big draws of go is ease of deployment. A single self contained binary is easy to package and ship, especially with containers.

I don’t think Java has any edge when it comes to deployment.

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Java AOT has come a long way, and is not so rare as it used to be. Native binaries with GraalVM AOT are becoming more a common way to ship CLI tools written in JVM languages.

Native image continues to be relegated to a “niche” scenario with very few accommodations from the wider Java ecosystem.

This contrasts significantly with effort and adoption of NativeAOT in .NET. Well, besides CLI, scenarios where it shines aren’t those which Go is capable of addressing properly in the first place like GUI applications.

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