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Because Python is godawful for dependencies. With Go, you write, you compile, you ship the binary, job done.

• geocrasher 3y ago
  Is Go genuinely as dependency independent as bash on a fresh Linux install? If so I'd find this very interesting and perhaps worthwhile to learn. I work in an environment where everything is done at the Linux command line. I'd be thrilled to re-do some of my my complex bash scripts in Go if there is a good advantage to doing so.
  • mbwgh 3y ago
    The idea is that if you need dependencies, you only need them present during compilation on the machine you develop on. You then compile a statically linked binary and copy this to the machine where it's needed. There may be other advantages like static types, editor integration and so on, but that's beside the point.
  • dharmab 3y ago
    Go's dependency management is in a really good state. For building your code, Go modules are generally easy to use and editor integrations exist to automatically update your dependencies as you type. Then you build a static binary and distribute it, no installers or packages required.
• adr1an 3y ago
  That sounds like a lot of steps when you require interaction (e.g. for bash I list files, then try find, then xargs with echo, etc until I got what I wanted..)
• elzbardico 3y ago
  For the kind of things I do with bash scripts, the python standard library is usually more than enough.