Things got delivered anyways, it's just that Java had more bumps in the road than Go. Not necessarily something that reflects on the language itself as much as it does on the ecosystem around it (and its age), as well as how it's often used. Give it a decade, one day Go developers will also know the joys of https://balusc.omnifaces.org/2015/10/the-empty-string-madnes... and the likes.