Pitching D to a gang of Gophers

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On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 13:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 03/07/2016 02:17 PM, landaire wrote:
>> I'd like to add that one of the things that I love about Go is 
>> that it
>> is crazy easy to cross-compile. `GOOS=freebsd go build` and I 
>> have a
>> FreeBSD binary sitting in my working directory, ready to send 
>> off.
>
> What would be some good cases for that? When I want to 
> cross-compile, I ssh into the target machine and build there. 
> -- Andrei

It's typical in an embedded target development environment that 
you are working on Windows (or nowadays Linux) and developing for 
some target platform (though yeah, perhaps it doesn't make much 
sense to build on Windows for FreeBSD, I assume the idea is to 
make target platform development sort of generic). It also helps 
if you are trying to develop a multi-platform tool and prefer to 
develop on just one platform -- a single build could potentially 
generate binaries for all the target platforms.