You&#x27;re certainly right that it&#x27;s a possible and viable alternative. The reason I didn&#x27;t go that way is quite simple: I always try and do my best to avoid external dependencies.
One of the reason I really love Go is its ease of deployment thanks to its lack of dependencies: I love the idea of being just one scp away from running in staging&#x2F;production; no more, no less.<p>I know many people won&#x27;t agree with that, and there are definitely good reasons not to; and still, as far as I&#x27;m concerned, minimizing the complexity of my software stack means there&#x27;s one less thing that I&#x27;ll have to worry about, and at the end of the day, that is really quite the upside.