A Tour of Go's Runtime: How a Go Binary Bootstraps Itself – Part I

[matttproud]

http://blog.matttproud.com/2015/02/exploring-gos-runtime-how-process.html

[shanemhansen]

The explanation of how os-specific routines are used to set up an environment to call a single amd64 routine was fascinating. In general I'm super interested in the process by which an executable file results in a computer doing something.

Articles like this are why I read hacker news.