The Birth of Go
September 21, 2007: three engineers, one whiteboard, and a shared impatience with slow builds. How Go was designed, and why it went public two years later.
Albert Bausili Fernández
Software & systems engineer · Barcelona · BSc & MSc @ UPC
I build high-performance software, AI tooling, and privacy-first systems. This blog is a space where I document my technical journey and write about whatever piques my interest.
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