Java matches my "taste" much more than Go does. I appreciate the more powerful type system. I also like the verbosity because it's always obvious what everything is - as it's written out in full. Go's compiler can infer types in lots of places, which is cool, but I appreciate being able to see the types when reading code & refactoring Java. People complain about Java's exceptions, but you can very easily create a Result<Error, Value> class for your own code, whereas it's much harder to emulate exceptions in Go. As for comparing the different flavors of the billion dollar mistake: I also found `null` far easier to understand and not footgun myself than Go's zero values & nil.