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Tooling is why Go gets its foot in the door much quicker than other languages IMHO. A single binary with no dependencies that does pretty much everything.


Indeed. Also formatting decided at the language level (gofmt) and a standard library powerful enough to accomplish most business tasks, so you can avoid 3rd party dependencies entirely if you want, while still being productive.


I've seen go programs fail to start because they were dynamically linked to some .so file I happened to not have.


They mean the `go` binary, not Go programs in general.


Yeah ‘Fully static’ requires some extra linker flags.




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