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Unless your application also contains other assets like images etc. Now you suddenly need to package and install/deploy your Go application.

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Or you just bundle them all in to the binary like a monster.

Hello Win32 rc files all over again.

I do miss editing those with Resource Hacker or XN Resource Editor. I translated tons of Japanese and Chinese software into English that way back in high school and early college.

Good times.

Is there an accepted way to do this?

I know Consul was using https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata [1] a few years ago.

Personally I'm not a fan but I can totally see the appeal.

1. https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/1543

go-bindata is the conventional method, but I'm not entirely sure which fork is the most maintained one right now.

I wanted to statically compile a single HTML template file recently, and I liked using vfsgen [1] and vfstemplate [2].

I also found this comparison of libraries pretty good: https://tech.townsourced.com/post/embedding-static-files-in-...

[1] https://github.com/shurcooL/vfsgen

[2] https://github.com/shurcooL/httpfs/blob/master/html/vfstempl...

And TBH properly packaging Go program is a nightmare if you want packager to build it and the build machine has no access to net.

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