> No, the reason we went with go was because golang’s packaging is so much better than node. Or java. Or C#. We get a single binary. Building is as easy as:

> No, the reason we went with go was because golang’s packaging is so much better than node. Or java. Or C#. We get a single binary. Building is as easy as: `go build` This is only true insofar as you have an extended group of collaborators committed to observing the fundamental tenets[1] that make this work. Not hard to run into (popular!) software written in Go that is as bereft of this simplicity as the other ecosystems the author compares to. (Interestingly, Docker itself is the product of minds that were exposed to Go, and yet these principles didn't "take" in that case...) 1. http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2020/08/perl7-is-a-fork-of-values.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2020/08/perl7-is...