[h1fra]

postinstall is a liability for sure, but as soon as you execute untrusted code, it's the same no matter the language. Last week, npm pawn was working like this without a postinstall, which could be the same with Go. Nothing prevents me from pushing a code that would read all your files as soon as you load the library in your code.

[amiga386]

I notice you didn't address the other 4 differences. All 5 are about "defence in depth", making things less likely - and conversely, not doing them makes pwning more likely.

I'll add a 6th difference: "go get" downloads source code, not maintainer-provided tarballs. You can't sneak extra things in there that aren't in the code repo.