> It's not quite that simple unfortunately.
This has been my experience with Go. First a promise of everything being much simpler than the alternatives. Then, when we run into all sorts of confusion and caveats, an unapologetic disclaimer about why it's not simple and can't be, with a long exposition about Go's own internal limitations and the trade-offs they had to make.
It's not clear what this new -static flag will do, likely automatically setup some of the linker static flags when compiling with CGO to statically link other dependencies and perhaps libc itself.