As you can see, each operating system requires very different packaging. Additionally, the tools that would normally make the process simple are typically platform-specific, making it more difficult to build from a single system. The distribution of GUI applications is an area in which Go tools are also lacking. The Go language is great for rapidly creating cross-platform software, but it is not designed to handle the complication of graphical application packaging.

In Section 2,  Toolkits Using Existing Widgets, we explored toolkits that are very mature, but as they are either not written for Go, or are not designed to be cross-platform, they do not provide the tools we could use. Section 3,  Modern Graphical Toolkits, looked at toolkits that are more focused on providing graphical capabilities rather than application life cycle, and so do not provide suitable tools either.