C build and link errors are only one of a myriad of issues that one can have with packaging. I've had far more problems with badly-managed packages in pure Pyth

C build and link errors are only one of a myriad of issues that one can have with packaging. I've had far more problems with badly-managed packages in pure Python than with stuff like PIL. And one only has to look as far as JavaScript to see that pure native language dependencies won't save you. I stand by what I said: give it a decade and Go packaging will be just as miserable as packaging in any other language.