This is awesome. Back in the day, writing cross-platform code meant knowing the ins-and-outs of each platform you wanted to support and coding specifically for

This is awesome. Back in the day, writing cross-platform code meant knowing the ins-and-outs of each platform you wanted to support and coding specifically for each one. Interpreted languages (like Python) and runtimes (like JRE) take a lot of the pain away, but that means all those programs have a dependency: the interpreter or runtime. Go isn't interpreted and bundles its runtime inside the executable. That has always been pretty great, but with Go 1.5, the programmer won't even have to run `env GOOS=... GOARCH=... make.bash --no-clean` before compiling for another platform. With veteran OS and systems engineers working on the language, this is why we can have nice things.