[stlava]

I wrote and operate a high throughput go service with somewhat tight memory requirements. It became impracticable to try tuning the memory footprint to avoid OOMs while balancing gc pauses with just the GOGC flag. I'm happy to say that I started using the soft memory limit shortly it landed and it's been a game changer for us.

[pjmlp]

It is ironic how Go ends up slowly adding Java features with each version, while deeming them not necessary for several releases.

[rastignack]

They didn’t add quite as much features as Java has. Not even by a mile.

[YesThatTom2]

Have you heard of the “MVP then iterate” concept?