Isn't one possible reason for a flat, and granular, package structure due to the static linking of the binaries produced by Go? http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_i

Isn't one possible reason for a flat, and granular, package structure due to the static linking of the binaries produced by Go? http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_is_my_trivial_program_such_a_large_binary http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_is_my_trivial_program_such_a_l... Each package you can exclude from your compiled output should result in a smaller binary. .NET on the other hand, is not statically linking the System and System.IO packages into your compiled output.