That isn't quite true re Python, eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/how-can-i-create-a-directly-executable-cross-platform-gui-app-using-python https://

That isn't quite true re Python, eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/how-can-i-create-a-directly-executable-cross-platform-gui-app-using-python https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/how-can-i-create-a-... Go might be a special case actually, as it was designed to be a "boring" language to reduce the cost of technology choice. But it is completely interchangeable with similar programming languages (like Python) so evaluating the cost of it vs something else is still a very reasonable thing to do.