I've worked with Python for over a decade and have worked with Go for a few years. The Go tooling and workflow for building and deploying applications is much

I've worked with Python for over a decade and have worked with Go for a few years. The Go tooling and workflow for building and deploying applications is much more pleasant than the Python ecosystem. Once you know which target operating systems and CPU architectures you wish to deploy to, the toolchain makes it very easy to cross compile to produce n deployable binaries, then the static linking means you generally only need to copy 1 binary file to each target, plus your own application configuration. If you have a Python background and have done some programming with a static type system before, then Go is very quick to learn. The Go language itself is a bit annoyingly inexpressive for bashing out algorithms, but that probably doesn't matter if you're writing CLI tools. For packaging python stuff, it kind of depends who or what the end user of the CLI tool is. I used to work in a small business that shipped windows desktop software to customers, a lot of the software was written in python. From memory we packaged it with py2exe -- so you end up building a zip file containing a self-contained executable, the version of the python interpreter your tool needs, along with all the python packages as well as native libraries. That worked quite reliably, but it'd seem rather distasteful to use that approach for sharing CLI tools with your colleagues or CI machines in a dev team! edit: there are pitfalls to deploying go application binaries if you try to put them in scratch containers and use libraries that assume they can find data such as timezone data provided in the usual place in the filesystem by the distribution (there will be no such data files in a scratch container unless you explicitly copy them in), or build a go linux binary with dynamic linking assuming glibc, then try to run it in an alpine based environment with musl. So it's not magic. But it's mostly pretty nice.