The appeal of Go for me is the deployment story - single binary, no runtime dependencies. After years of dealing with JVM version conflicts and classpath hell, go build feels refreshingly simple. Though I do miss Java's mature ecosystem and tooling sometimes.

Does Go have versioned libs yet? Last time I tried it, people were asking me to compile something that depended on another git repo, like a direct connection to a different git repo, that had diverged in API. And it was broken - no one cared, almost like that's normal. This was probably 10 years ago though, so it's probably different now.

Self answered - Go Modules. I guess so. I'll take another look, getting sick of Python lately.