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> Are we trying to create job security through unnecessary complexity?

As a python/go dev, I can assure you that go is not much more complex. And as a server admin, it's much easier to deploy.

It does have drawbacks when compared to python, but it can often be the optimal solution.

Also a Python dev. I do use VirtualEnv but the other thing is a huge performance boost for small performance intensive projects.

This is the weirdest straw man I've seen in a while. Python, not Go, benefits most from containerization. Installing "Dynamic libraries, OS packages, and even directories like virtualenvs" on target machines is far more complicated than sending a single file. I say all this as the DevOps guy in a Python shop.

Isolation is merely one utility of containers.