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by krautsourced 3438 days ago
Another great thing is, they offer a lot of binary releases, especially for ARM platforms, so it works out of the box on e.g. Synology NAS (the Marvell based ones).
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Most apps written in Go do, example: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases

It's because Go doesn't use gcc or LLVM for linking - it has its own built in linker that doesn't depend on the host system, so cross-compiling is totally trivial. I have no idea why gcc wasn't written like that.