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by stock_toaster 4905 days ago

  > Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need
  > to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too.
They do? Why not build as part of a CI run? Or via cross compile?

It is generally much easier to deploy a versioned statically compiled binary, compared to rolling out code to production in some languages (ruby, python, etc).