I think, like TFA says, it comes down to ease of deployment for support tooling. A single executable is easier to distribute than a set of dependencies and a l

I think, like TFA says, it comes down to ease of deployment for support tooling. A single executable is easier to distribute than a set of dependencies and a language runtime. These are tools that run outside containers to manage code that can run inside containers, where dependency management and isolation are easier. It makes total sense to me.