Why I think Go is more verbose than Java

A Java developer argues that Go is actually more verbose than Java, primarily due to Go's error handling approach. Using concrete code examples of transaction handling and database queries, the author shows how Go requires repetitive `if err != nil` checks throughout code, while Java with Spring's `@Transactional` annotation achieves the same result in far fewer lines. The author acknowledges Go's strengths in performance, binary compilation, and simplicity of abstractions, but maintains that verbosity-wise, Go loses to Java when error handling is factored in.