Crossing Paths: A Gopher's Encounter with a Crab in the World of Go and Web Development As a long-time Gopher—someone who lives and breathes Go—I’ve built microservices, CLI tools, and backend APIs with the kind of confidence that only comes from years of wrestling with sync.Mutex and context.WithTimeout . But recently, I crossed paths with a Crab —a Rustacean who wandered into our Go-dominated ecosystem, asking questions that made me pause. Not because they were wrong, but because they exposed blind spots we Gophers often ignore. This article isn’t about Go vs. Rust. It’s about the non-obvious pitfalls in Go web development that even experienced developers overlook—mistakes that become glaring when viewed through a different lens. Let’s unpack them. 1. Treating context.Context as Optional We all know context is important. But in practice, it’s often tacked on as an afterthought. func ( h * Handler ) GetUser ( w http . ResponseWriter , r * http . Request ) { user , err := h . store . GetUser ( r . URL .…