[jerf]

For those concerns, I'd say Go. You can statically link in any pure-Go library trivially. SQLite specifically may require a C file because of its nature, but for accessing databases that take network connections there's a pure-Go driver for most things you've heard of, and there are other static database options for Go if you want them (though they tend more towards NoSQL; if that's really a problem personally I'd just bite the bullet and include the SQLite's library).