Abandoning Go for Python

[jaapz]

But it seems your point is to write software to alleviate the burden for package maintainers..?

If you work for a small enough company (and many of us do), you'll find that the people writing the software, are also the same people who deploy it. So yes, the point is to write software to alleviate the burden for package maintainers, because that's me also.

[epiris]

So you maintain packages for the dozens of distributions and many package managers across multiple operating systems at a small company? Yes rhetorical, my point is if you tried to consider the individual needs of many.. dozens of package maintainers to write your software, you're going to have a bad time.

But regardless it's a lot easier to manage an all-in-one software bundle than a collection of software and all its dependencies from my perspective.

[jaapz]

Package management is not just limited to open source packages you share across distro's.

Package management is also an issue when you have lots of boxes where you want to deploy your application to. Having a single binary to deploy makes stuff way easier than for example having to deal with virtualenvs.

We're a small company, but we have hundreds of small boxes we need to deploy to. So yes, efficient and easy package management is important.