This also makes cross-compiling a breeze. I write software in Go for armv5 chumby devices but I edit and compile on Windows (the Go compiler itself can be comp

This also makes cross-compiling a breeze. I write software in Go for armv5 chumby devices but I edit and compile on Windows (the Go compiler itself can be compiled and run on the chumby devices, but they are very slow and low memory for doing active development on). Getting a build for the chumby from my Windows/x64 box is as easy as setting GOARCH=arm, GOARM=5 and GOOS=linux and then re-running go build. Ridiculously simpler than setting up a full gcc toolchain that targets the device, taking into account what libc is on each device, etc. Build on the Windows box, scp the output executable over and It Just Works.