That has generally been true as far as Go packages are concerned, but by default the binaries that Go generates still dynamically link against any C libraries -

That has generally been true as far as Go packages are concerned, but by default the binaries that Go generates still dynamically link against any C libraries - in particular just about any Go binary will break in the absence of a compatible libc. I don't know the background on this choice, but I've spoken to a few Go shops that have complained about memory usage when running a bunch of different Go binaries on the same machine, so hopefully this will help there.