[arghwhat]

Well, Go code is statically linked, but the runtime may try to dynamically load libc for DNS resolving. Use of cgo of course drastically change everything.

[pjmlp]

By default, nowadays the toolchain also supports generating dynamic libraries.

[4ad]

And by default, this feature is not used.

[pjmlp]

So what, it doesn't make this "Go code is statically linked" into a fact, given that it depends on compiler flags.

Now if it said "Go code is usually/by default statically linked", then yes.