[flal_]

It's never as simple as "slap an exe and launch it" : even super simple MVCs need some server state ( lucky you if you don't ! ) : this means db migrations, configs ... Not that docker solves this though. Also I disagree with the "can't do this with java" : any JVM based framework offers self sustained jars packaging ( might be slightly bloated, OK ).

[pornel]

If I need a database, I slap an exe with sqlite, and launch it :)

I know it won't scale to write-heavy Enterprise OLTP workflows, but there are plenty of cases where it's good enough up to millions of rows and gigabytes of data.

[flal_]

I was expecting the sqlite comment ;-) still : you need to handle migrations, you may very well have other dependencies on external APIs or services ...