[mrweasel]

How large are the binaries you deploy? Unless it's hundreds of MB per binary I does see the dynamically linked executables being worth the trouble.

Of cause options are nice, I just worry that in the end I don't get to choose.

[ColinCera]

I think one of the motivations is that they want Go to be a language suitable for Android development and other use cases. In mobile and embedded devices, binary size still matters.