alt Hacker News> We already have FreeBSD CI; machines for the other 3 are arriving at my place tomorrow as it happens.
That's great. I hope it works out, and you have CI for NetBSD, OpenBSD, and illumos, too.
Go's support for NetBSD has been a big boon to the more casual NetBSD user who isn't going to maintain a port. It means a random Go open-source project you use probably works on NetBSD already, or if it doesn't, it can be fixed upstream. Maybe Zig could play a similar role.
It's a shame GitHub doesn't have native CI even for FreeBSD on x86-64. I can see the economic case against it, of course. That said, the third-party Cross-Platform GitHub Action (https://github.com/cross-platform-actions/action) has made Free/Net/OpenBSD CI practical for me. I have used it in many projects. The developer is currently working on OmniOS support in https://github.com/cross-platform-actions/omnios-builder.
> Go's support for NetBSD has been a big boon to the more casual NetBSD user who isn't going to maintain a port. It means a random Go open-source project you use probably works on NetBSD already, or if it doesn't, it can be fixed upstream. Maybe Zig could play a similar role.
In fact, we do already have cross-compilation support for NetBSD (and FreeBSD). But we currently only "test" NetBSD by building the language behavior tests and standard library tests for it on Linux, i.e. we don't actually run them, nor do we build the compiler itself for NetBSD. Native CI machines will allow us to fill that gap.
As it happens, Go's cross-compilation support does indeed make our lives easier for provisioning CI machines since we can build the Forgejo Runner for all of them from one machine: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/runner/releases/tag/v12.0.0