The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember the first time I tried to make a Go program feel like The Matrix — you know, where Neo suddenly sees the code flowing everywhere. I was building a simple image‑processing pipeline: grab a file, resize it, slap on a watermark, and ship it off to S3. Sounds easy, right? I spun up a goroutine for each step, hooked them together with channels, and hit run . What happened next felt like the final boss level in Dark Souls : my program hung, me...