alt Hacker NewsAnd a set of people rediscovered why cross compiling only works up to certain extent, regardless of the marketing on the tin.
The point one needs to touch APIs that only exists on the target system, the fun starts, regardless of the programming language.
Go, Zig, whatever.
You're thinking of cross platform codebases. There's nothing about cross compilation that stops the toolchain from knowing what APIs are present & not present on a target system.