1. We wanted to try out Go 2. We wanted something that would give us a single, staticly-linked binary that we could easily push out to the nodes. Does Python a

1. We wanted to try out Go 2. We wanted something that would give us a single, staticly-linked binary that we could easily push out to the nodes. Does Python allow that? 3. Go's goroutines and channels fit beautifully with what we were trying to do.