I’ve been on an unannounced, unplanned, month-long hiatus, what with moving my family across the globe. But with the new year starting, and the worst of the chaos behind me, I’m going to try to get back in the saddle again, and pick up where I left off. And what better way to initialize 2025 than with talking about init? Program initialization … Package initialization—variable initialization and the invocation of init functions—happens in a single goroutine, sequentially, one packag...