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Note, Aug 2022: See #23011 (comment) for the macOS deprecation schedule.
Apple continues to put out new macOS releases. We can't run builders for all of them forever.
I propose we announce in the Go 1.10 release notes that Go 1.10 will be the last release to officially support macOS 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
macOS 10.8 was last updated Oct 3, 2013, over 4 years ago.
(macOS 10.9 was last updated Mar 21, 2016, 19 months ago, which is somewhat more recent)
Apple doesn't publish official End-of-Life dates for macOS versions, but I read that their security policy is that they issue security updates for the past 3 releases.
Given that they're on 10.13 now, that means 10.13, 10.12, and 10.11 are supported by them.
Our policy of additionally supporting 10.10 and 10.9 in Go 1.11 would be even more.
/cc @rsc @ianlancetaylor