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So in theory Go programs can't be considered reliable across multiple versions of macOS without recompilation then?

It only matters if it also happens in practice.

All forwards-compatibility issues were only "theoretical" issues that didn't "matter in practice" until a new release of the platform came out and suddenly they did.

It does happen in practice:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16272

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