> I think what’s happening is the author tried a web URI that had an ampersand in, Bash then background the process and the author panicked thinking the Go runtime was parsing the ampersand rather than his or her $SHELL.

Yes, this is exactly what happened.

The author says this is one of their first Go projects, which explains their misunderstanding. They still have a lot to learn, not only about Go but Bash as well.

That being said, I am happy to see new programmers learn new things, especially in one of my favourite programming languages.