That Go does static linking also helps. And in Go-land source code is pretty much the only way things are distributed because it is so fast to build. For examp

That Go does static linking also helps. And in Go-land source code is pretty much the only way things are distributed because it is so fast to build. For example in Go on AppEngine you upload the source for your app, and it is built on Google's servers. In a way Go's source is its 'bytecode' :)