it's actually not that difficult to build go native server apps right in mac

All releases - The Go Programming Language

has the both apple platform binaries and with intellij or VSC you should be able to build anything the only reason why he would be having problems is by using non-Go stuff like mongo or redis or pgsql or some other dumbshit

No it's docker and arm vs. not arm.. that kinda stuff.. but docker sucks more than just that