Static binaries (for Go with Docker)
These days Go is quite popular for server based systems (read “cloud”) and one of the nice attributes is that compiling an application results in a single binary with no external dependencies (there is no “runtime” it has to link to). This makes deploying (read “copy to machine”) super easy and is a big contrast to something like Ruby on Rails and its thousands of dependencies. IIRC this feature was attractive to the developers of Qt’s coin (continuous integration agent)…