It does, I have to think twice because I know I'm not getting the compile time features that Java offers, and may end up just using strings in an awkward manner.

> Go has the JFR it needs, not what Java has

That doesn't make sense. All programs need the JFR that Java has, otherwise you wouldn't see companies like Datadog doing well.

> But it seems like you want to hate Go. Why?

I've used it in several large projects at my employer, and in every single project, Java would have been a superior alternative. We've had issues that would not have happened in Java due to many things, such as better error handling in Java, enum support, better frameworks and libraries to interact with the DB, etc.

And no, golang is not known for being maintainable, it's just things that some people parrot without proof. It's basically marketing. There's nothing in the language that inherently makes it more maintainable than Java/C#/etc., and in fact, it has many things that make it less maintainable.