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One of the reasons I love Go. Does the .zip file also contain the runtime? E.g., nothing is required to be installed on the remote system?

Yes. .net now has self contained builds. The whole deploy can be a single executable with some caveats.

And Delphi could do that 20 years ago. I keep blaming Java for the big detour.

And Java could do that 22 years ago[1]. Blame people that were too cheap.