Why are go programs always single binaries?

• Oragono

  20 2,172 8.3 Go

  A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.

  

I also like to self-host( r/selfhosted) some open source serivces and every time i came across a service that was written in go, it was always a single binary. This blows my mind because the majority of programs and services has some kind of external library that it depends on and the only programs that didn't were my own Object Pascal programs or really simple programs. But with go i had a complete IRCv3 implementation that is high performance and high quality in a single binary. I had a static site generator in a single binary and few other things.

• Hugo

  549 72,850 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

I also like to self-host( r/selfhosted) some open source serivces and every time i came across a service that was written in go, it was always a single binary. This blows my mind because the majority of programs and services has some kind of external library that it depends on and the only programs that didn't were my own Object Pascal programs or really simple programs. But with go i had a complete IRCv3 implementation that is high performance and high quality in a single binary. I had a static site generator in a single binary and few other things.

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