To be fair, early Java definitely had lots of issues with GC and "hanging" programs due to GC activity. It's a failure of the article to bring it up if modern Java implementation are better on that point. As an example of bad reputation, I think the latest Eclipse IDE on the latest Java SDK is still sucky and because of my ignorance I blame it on Java.
I was disappointed with the first Go gRPC implementation, it allocated like crazy and was really slow because of it. It's been rewritten since then but I don't know how much better it is now. To get good performance out of Go it is important to think about memory allocations (unfortunately), just as it is in C and C++. Although allocating like crazy in C/C++ will probably mostly result in a general loss of performance, not affect tail latencies in network protocols much.
I was disappointed with the first Go gRPC implementation, it allocated like crazy and was really slow because of it. It's been rewritten since then but I don't know how much better it is now. To get good performance out of Go it is important to think about memory allocations (unfortunately), just as it is in C and C++. Although allocating like crazy in C/C++ will probably mostly result in a general loss of performance, not affect tail latencies in network protocols much.