I've considered Go, but it does not really fit my criteria:
- lack of generics (sorry, but even though I kinda like go as a language there are features that I consider mandatory)
- lack of decent dependency handling (I don't consider vendoring a good solution, with maven central I know that the libraries will be there forever and there is a versioning scheme, pointing to the master branch of a git repo is not a good solution either, I value stability)
- lack of officially supported sql drivers and libraries like lucene (sorry but I don't really want to depend on a random github repo, it does not give me enough ensurance that it will be mantained)
(And I don't think that a statically linked binary/smaller binary/less memory footprint is a good enough reason to dump the jvm and his ecosystem)
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Have you considered Go? It makes deployment easier as it statically links everything.
I've considered Go, but it does not really fit my criteria:
- lack of generics (sorry, but even though I kinda like go as a language there are features that I consider mandatory)
- lack of decent dependency handling (I don't consider vendoring a good solution, with maven central I know that the libraries will be there forever and there is a versioning scheme, pointing to the master branch of a git repo is not a good solution either, I value stability)
- lack of officially supported sql drivers and libraries like lucene (sorry but I don't really want to depend on a random github repo, it does not give me enough ensurance that it will be mantained)
(And I don't think that a statically linked binary/smaller binary/less memory footprint is a good enough reason to dump the jvm and his ecosystem)