I still think that the ability to generate self-contained, static binaries is potentially a huge advantage for Go vs the scripting languages. Instead of install

I still think that the ability to generate self-contained, static binaries is potentially a huge advantage for Go vs the scripting languages. Instead of installing an interpreter and a bunch of libraries and fiddling with search paths you just copy a single file and go (as it were). Think about what it takes to get something like a PHP photo gallery going vs what it would take with Go, for instance.