> requires fifty packages At least the packages are often done professionally (e.g. symfony developed ones etc.). The standard library is pretty great so you d

> requires fifty packages At least the packages are often done professionally (e.g. symfony developed ones etc.). The standard library is pretty great so you don't always have to rely on packages. Often the same third party packages you'd have to rely on in PHP, you'd have to rely on similar packages for go. > you get segmentation faults Not sure where you get this from. In my 6 or so years of professional PHP development I've never seen a segmentation errors. Anyway, still prefer a single go executable. It's just so much simpler.