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actions/setup-go maintainer here! Great post, I like the ideas in there. We are always open to improvements, but it's true that low-risk ones are preferred. Feel free to submit your ideas to the GitHub issue tracker. I'll do some due diligence myself.

Author here. Microsoft is a soft Go fork mostly for internal Microsoft needs, but some projects outside of Microsoft use it as well due to it's good FIPS 140 story. I expect some of these users to switch back to Google's Go now that it will also ship with a FIPS-140 crypto stack.

Author here. The macOS support currently uses cgo, but we are trying to make it cgo-less in Go 1.25, just as already happens on Windows. The goal is to allow pain-free cross-compilations from Linux to macOS.