[mpdehaan2]

Yep, for me, distributions are the biggest thing holding things back right now, because the existing ones are out there, and will be deployed for a long time.

If deploying a .com website, you can control your dependencies completely, and it's much easier than if you are deploying a system that must interact with existing systems the user/customer might have (for instance, management or monitoring apps).

Thankfully that's not a huuuge class of systems, but it's what I typically work with :)

[aidos]

I suspect most people don't have to deal with that issue (fortunately, because that must suck). Is there not some way of wrapping the entire binary with your distribution? If I was working in that space I think I'd probably choose a different language, if possible.

As you say, it's not a problem for most of us as we get to dictate the platform.