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Building desktop apps with Go + web tech

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Build for Mac - What's the Asset You Get After Wales Build?

The binary comes with two targets. There's a sort of desktop application targets or a packaged version, which has an icon and it's something you can double click and run. The other one's just kind of like your standard go output, which is just a terminal app that you run. But it does come with the ability to pack down to a package. So on Windows, that's essentially generates the manifest file,. It generates a different range of icons that you have different sizes into an icon file. And then it compiles that up into the X that you would expect from any other build for Mac. That kind of comes with free too.

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