Comment by kbolino

The exact equivalences between the two languages are not the point, and anyway, Go arrays are fixed-size and have no Java equivalent.

The point is that Java does not have this problem in the language or the standard library. Of course, you should not write racy Go code; the language provides ample ways to avoid the race, such as channels; and the race detector will generally find such racy code, provided you turn it on. However, the issue is that this race leads to memory-safety violations; it can occur especially in code written by novice Go programmers, and it's well acknowledged by the language authors [1].

[1]: https://research.swtch.com/gorace