> single binary deployment > Also possible in Java Does not mean that's the default. Default matters quite a bit. Not to mention the verbosity of Java that I

> single binary deployment > Also possible in Java Does not mean that's the default. Default matters quite a bit. Not to mention the verbosity of Java that I guess you can use other languages on top of Java to deal with. But Go makes a lot of sense for these sorts of projects which in the past would be written in C or C++