That’s showing some real support to the community IMO.

There are plenty of purists that argue both for and against the concept but one cannot deny it fits very well in the sales pitch for Go. You can have a simple tool chain to ship a binary for any number of systems and that support for embedded assets would be a first class citizen.

I would also love to see them address more robust plugin options or officially adopt / endorse the pattern HashiCorp uses as they’re doing here with the bindata prior art.

What pattern are you referring to do? Haven't heard of this

If you squint it’s reminiscent of zeromq for IPC :)

You can contrast that with https://golang.org/pkg/plugin/