At one point in my adult life, I learned about the morning-lark vs. night-owl spectrum. It is then when I realized I’m a night owl and there’s a flock of others like me out there.

Preface: This write-up was shelved for years and has been nothing but semi-private thoughts and rants amongst friends. However, recent events lead to the whole thing being penned and published. So be it.

On a high level, compilers are viewed as a single, solid, single-step-worker entity. A Gopher, aka Go programmer, interacts with the Go compiler via the abstractions of go build or go install commands.