Linus Torvalds about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc Distros (Debian in particular comes to mind)

Linus Torvalds about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc Distros (Debian in particular comes to mind) have some really annoying packaging rules, and as a maintainer of a Go program, it's a huge pain, so we decided to just set up a repo with https://cloudsmith.com/ https://cloudsmith.com/ instead of trying to deal with that. They require every dependency (indirect or not) to be packaged separately. We don't have the time for that. Way simpler to just build a static binary and ship it.