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by airstrike 455 days ago
Obligatory comment saying you can do the same in Rust
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I can’t target msvc or aarch-64-apple-* and compile a binary on Linux, without resorting to significant amounts of rectal dentistry.
I've built .exes for Windows just fine on Linux. I don't know about Apple stuff, though, I don't think there's any built-in Linux tooling to submit an executable for Apple's signature scheme.
Can’t you just replace the “cargo” command with “cross”

    cross build —-target=…
https://github.com/cross-rs/cross
Cross-building for Apple is possible, but it's far from smooth with many steps that you have to figure out by yourself unfortunately.
I use this which seems to work well for my projects. Particularly their docker image.

https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

You can in fact also do it in C
It's not quite as seamless as in Go to be fair. But it does mean you can write Rust instead of Go.
And .NET