I love the idea behind snap and played with it on a Ubuntu VM.
Snapcraft Overview
Snapcraft is a build and packaging tool which helps you package your software as a snap. It makes it easy to incorporate components from different sources and build technologies or solutions. Key concepts
A .snap package for the Ubuntu Core system contains all its dependencies. This has a couple of advantages over traditional deb or rpm based dependency handling, the most important being that a developer can always be assured that there are no regressions triggered by changes to the system underneath their app.
Snapcraft makes bundling these dependencies easy by allowing you to specify them as "parts" in the snapcraft.yaml file. Snappy
Snappy Ubuntu Core is a new rendition of Ubuntu with transactional updates - a minimal server image with the same libraries as today's Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism.
Snappy apps and Ubuntu Core itself can be upgraded atomically and rolled back if needed. Apps are also strictly confined and sandboxed to safeguard your data and system.
On what technologies is snap based? How do the architecture and toolkits look? Does snap depend on Linux kernel features?
I ask, because I'm wondering whether in the future I'll be able to use the same snap packages also on macOS?
Clarification, after first comment:
I know that macOS and Ubuntu are not binary compatible. A recompile is needed. There is almost any Open Source available already for macOS with Homebrew. The developer could develop on macOS and deploy on Ubuntu when snap will be (in future) available for macOS.