[djur]

I had the same reaction. I associate it with weekend projects people post on HN -- "Minecraft written in Elm" or the like.

The claims about it being automatically cross-platform because of Go were also pretty dubious. Most languages are cross-platform until you write code that isn't (or use a dependency that isn't).

[CognitiveLens]

Go compiles easily to platform-specific binaries, unlike some other languages which either require a lot of provisioning or middleware to run cross-platform.

Saying that the project is "automatically cross-platform" is just shorthand for saying "no additional configuration is needed to run on platforms supported by the Go compiler"

[zak_mc_kracken]

More like "So far, it's cross platform on all the platforms I have compiled it on".