Also, Go (via its usual compiler) is even more self contained than most binary languages: it compiles to a statically linked binary - it doesn't even depend on

Also, Go (via its usual compiler) is even more self contained than most binary languages: it compiles to a statically linked binary - it doesn't even depend on /usr/lib. If the CPU and OS is good, you can just throw around the binary with scp and run it wherever, no setup.