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Well, at some level you could say Go (pre 1.18) is Java 1.44 but with speed as a differentiator. Development speed, build speed, deploy speed, and runtime speed.

If Russ Cox ever proposes to rename Go to JavaScript, I guess no one would complain. ;)



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