From 'Magic' to 'Duh': A Developer's Journey

The author shares their programming journey, comparing the initial bewilderment of facing complex technologies to the helplessness of staring at a grand building. Initially, compilers and operating systems seemed mystical, but with accumulated experience, the author gradually understood the underlying principles, such as the implementation of compile-time computation in Go. By exploring Go's compile-time computation feature, the author understood its ingenious implementation mechanism and even contributed to it, although they later discovered some features were unnecessary. The article encourages developers to delve deeper, unveil the mystique of technology, and continuously improve their abilities.