Indeed, those two aren't the same concepts, but the person I replied to said "It finally possible to make Linux binaries in a high level language not involving

Indeed, those two aren't the same concepts, but the person I replied to said "It finally possible to make Linux binaries in a high level language not involving anything written in C at build-time or run-time", so mainly referring to the possibility instead of all implementations being that way. For go I didn't want to go into further detail then as I assumed the "default go experience" entails only the official Go toolchain.