Either as a base for a development environment, or a disposable container to compile your go programs. For example, compiling your program with a different ver

Either as a base for a development environment, or a disposable container to compile your go programs. For example, compiling your program with a different version of Go can be done just by changing the tag on your compile command, and doesn't require that you have any development tools or compilers installed on your machine (except docker).