I have seen lots of udemy affiliate link spam on "learn programming" type subreddits.
They use alt-accounts for fake reviews and make affiliate links looks like regular links.
I'm okay with them as long as there is transparency and don't start a spam race.
I guess that's a possibility; however, Go isn't the most lightweight and portable language out there. Rust and Erlang both seem like better options if those criteria are important.
I just find Go a more pleasant experience. The source code is easily readable and understandable. I don't run into weird wrong version or dependency problems ever. Go get, go build and i'm done. Or if i download the binary, just dump it in a bin folder and it works without even having Go on the system. I haven't written anything in Rust or Erlang yet, but I have run into trouble when building Rust packages from source. Maybe it was the package maintainer's bad every time, the system setup or I'm just dim, but I just need to get stuff done and not go down the rabbit hole. I also personally don't like the hassle with Python version environments.
Yes, they would simply link stuff dynamically (.so, .dll, .dylib files).
But everyone is using a slightly different version of Electron and macOS and Windows don't have a good enough package manager, so everyone is static linking everything.
Daniel Shiffman (https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/): his videos are quite beginner friendly explains whole process of creating classic games like snake or creating art with code like fractal trees.
