tldr: go build only produces an executable for main packages. Check the package name of your main file is main.

I am an idiot. Its only through mistakes that you learn tho. I have recently been running into issues with my new golang projects. ONLY the new ones. Whenever I try to make a new project, it would always have issues. The biggest issue is the fact that "go build" would not produce an executable without "-o main.exe" as arguments. When an executable was produced, if I ran it I got

$ ./main.exe
./main.exe: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token \`newline\'
./main.exe: line 1: \`!<arch>\'