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nemothekid,
You're absolutely right, my apologizes, its been a while since i read that article. Thank you for the correction! Much appreciated.
Definitely, definitely not true. Go is extremely fast, it has its strengths in some areas and trade offs in other areas. If you want a good comparison to Apache Kafka, you should look at Apcera's NATS server, a publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system written in Go by Derek Collison: https://github.com/apcera/gnatsd
You should never discredit a language, especially with blanket terms such as "its faster than Go". In what respects and in what areas? Here's a blog post which performs benchmarks on Go and Scala: http://eng.42go.com/scala-vs-go-tcp-benchmark/
They found Go to perform better than scala, however it had a high footprint. Every language has its tradeoffs, Java and Go are no exception.
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