Sure, and it be confused if your favorite Go iptables frontend would work on Windows. But there's plenty use cases for which the go standard library offers a s

Sure, and it be confused if your favorite Go iptables frontend would work on Windows. But there's plenty use cases for which the go standard library offers a sufficiently good abstraction that cross compiling just works. The same holds for JVM apps for ages (and for nodejs etc etc) but not eg for C(++). As a windows dev I very much noticed an increase in good CLI tools that just work on my box since Go got to the scene. I think that's cool.