One nice thing about Go is it produces cross platform binaries without external dependencies, and the standard library supports Windows api stuff like system se

One nice thing about Go is it produces cross platform binaries without external dependencies, and the standard library supports Windows api stuff like system services and registry. Mono/C# is better, but the learning curve is pretty steep compared to Go with all the missing reference assemblies, diverse runtime versions, etc. Gopath sucks and sucks to configure but it's less complicated than .net. So you can ask a junior web dev to learn a new language in a week and write a native windows application, and they might actually deliver. Whether this is empowering or signals the death of Quality remains a hotly contested issue.