I am becoming more and more a fanatic of the single self-contained executable, with no runtime dependencies, that Go provides: one binary, forever. No npm, virtualenv, docker, flatpak, snap... no version hell.

The qualities I lived with and took for granted during my years of coding in C and shell.

To the point that when I find now a python/node/java/ruby/php piece of software I would like to install, my first reflex is to just recode the darn thing in Go. I know, I know, rewriting a perfectly working piece of software just to avoid a dependency is bordering on insanity, but the result is so satisfying... A single file that will still run in 20 years, with no upgrades, no breakage, no maintenance.

And with AI, now, it is becoming less and less insane!

(Bluepost )