People sometimes ask whether our choice of programming language matters anymore, now that AI writes so much of our code for us. As @rseroter.bsky.social and I write, our choice of programming language actually matters more than ever. developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an...

Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering- Google Developers Blog

As AI shifts software engineering from writing to reviewing, discover how Go's strict compiler and unified toolchain ensure reliable AI-generated code.

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Finished reading the DSQL paper. It's surprisingly readable. While the early 2010s era evangelized eventual consistency everywhere, recent years have harkened back to strongly consistent DBs. But this time you get snapshot isolation in a multi-region active-active DB.

If AI really makes developers anywhere near 10x more productive, the notable absence of any significant new or improved products would suggest maybe developers have never been as singularly important to the process of making ideas successful as developers have enjoyed the privilege of believing.

TIL a nice #GoLang trick! That doesn't happen so often these days. :D

maragubot@maragubot.com · last wk.

TIL: you can test-export unexported Go identifiers. Add an export_test.go to the package: package foo var Export = unexported Test files don't ship with the build, so external _test packages can reach it while the real API stays unexported. The standard library does this everywhere.

A really nice blog post about fire-and-forget with in-memory queue in Go from @rednafi.com. It can be used in projects if you need a simple, asynchronous, in-memory queue implementation. 🔗 rednafi.com/go/supervise...

Supervised fire-and-forget in Go

A bounded worker pool for small background tasks, with task-owned contexts, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown.

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They are saying this like it's a bad thing. This lame stat only proves that trans folks are better programmers than your average right-wing nut. What's wrong with these people. Just let people be! x.com/LundukeJourn...

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Rust programmers are over 800% more likely to be “Trans” than the average populace (and over 500% more likely to be “Trans” than programmers in general). 7.72% of all Rust programmers, according to t...

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Async Rust is so bad that even reading the chapter in rustbook feels like a chore. The book compensates it by importing a small crate that abstracts away tokio and all the machineries. It's super hard to go from preemptive concurrency of Go to the same old colored future based cooperative conc.

We have oriented our society in ways where - someone can't say they dislike something w/o elaboration - someone can't change their mind w/o getting heat from the mob For example: I used to not like #Rust but it grew on me as I use it more. But also, the Rust community is ass.

I find top down learning schemes a big scam to lure in people w/ ADHD. It took a few years for me to pick up my 2nd PL & a few more to ship code to prod. Reading books, blogs, watching talks, & working on the go is a linear process and going top down means skipping steps...and that has tradeoffs.

Any post that talks about caching but doesn't mention invalidation and stampede should be taken with a grain of salt.

Speedrunning through the Rust book. Landed on Chapter 7. I like how expressive the type system is, but I also don't like how expressive the type system is. You could play around with enums, matches, & trait bounds for days without building anything. But intellectually, it's extremely satisfying.

The ops story for #Go keeps on getting better.

OpenTelemetry@opentelemetry.io · last mo.

Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...

Go Compile-Time Instrumentation just hit v1! 🎉 Add OpenTelemetry to your Go services with zero code changes. Swap go build for otelc go build and get automatic instrumentation for your app, dependencies & the standard library. opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go...

Announcing v1 of OpenTelemetry Go Compile-Time Instrumentation

If you write Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET, you have been able to add OpenTelemetry to an application without editing its code for years: attach an agent at startup and telemetry starts flowing. Go…

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first time using oai models for coding. it's so refreshing to ask it simple questions and for it to reply immediately rather than using 300 tool calls and taking 30 minutes

Oh look who arrived!

I write a lot of Go and TS for both work & play and I am loving #Rust. The compile time is atrocious and Rust analyzer is a huge pain in anything beyond 10k loc. Oh async is a mess and not half as ergonomic as Go but the typesystem is 🤌

#Meetup app is so shit that I am surprised they haven't been wiped out by some AI powered competition. Their legacy database is their moat but otherwise we should have moved away from that crap ages ago. Rootly whacked pagerduty for on similar ground. Need a rootly for meetup.

New blog post: GC shape stenciling in #Go generics. Go takes a hybrid approach between full monomorphization and type erasure to implement generics. This way the compile time remains fast but it does introduce some runtime overhead. rednafi.com/go/gc-shape-...

GC shape stenciling in Go generics

How Go's compiler shares generic function bodies by GC shape and uses dictionaries for the concrete types.

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To native English speakers: Isn't the cringe in LLM-generated text obvious? How does anyone not notice the overuse of adjectives, anaphora, em dashes, and comma-infected compound sentences? No one talks like this. How does anyone miss it?

I mean, why pay for AI when you can wait for some schmuck to fire one at your GitHub repo and just ask it to do whatever the hell you want!??

TypeScript is now officially written in Go.

TypeScript@typescriptlang.org · last mo.

In case you missed it, TypeScript 7 is a complete 10x faster version of the compiler & language server. It's a full port to parallelized native code. It runs faster, uses less memory, and is more stable than ever before.

"We do autonomous agentic development but we are not vibe coders. We only allow the highest quality code to be pushed to prod." How do you know that it's high quality? Do you review everything?" "Nope, other agents do. And we got SKILLz" Then you look at the code & find that it's utter garbage.

LLM capabilities has hit an asymptote for what I do. It literally doesn't matter if I am working with 5.5, 4.8 or Fable. If you don’t do vibe slopping, looping or other retardmaxxing, and use LLMs as accelerator for your existing SDLC workflow, the capability gains are marginal.

Just because I am traveling to a place doesn't make me an expert in the local language. Many apps do this. Why would you change the default language based on location if the user is already logged in? Utter stupidity.

Sara Soueidan@sarasoueidan.com · last mo.

Sooooo LinkedIn decided to switch and flip my UI from English to Arabic based on my location, and I have to reset it to English every single time I log in. It's like the LinkedIn folks keep finding ways to make me not use the app. Every time I work around something, they come up with another. 🫠

A friend of mine received this text message after a support call. Our AI overlords may just lick us to death with cringe.

just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao

Sorry for the delay, here is the link. docs.google.com/presentation...

2026-06-16 The Heap Profile is a Lie (GopherConEU)

The heap profile is a lie* Felix Geisendörfer, Datadog Hello, and welcome to my presentation: The heap profile is a lie. My name is Felix Geisendörfer … 1 * Truthful, but not burdened by the whole tru...

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Did the idea of threading together a bunch of Lambda, SQS, and SNS services to build your system ever pan out well? In every substantial project I’ve seen, this design turned into an absolute catastrophe for the maintainability & understandability of the system. I wanna hear some success stories.

Another great post by @rednafi.com for go lang devs. This time all about modernizers and `go fix` CLI tool. "Modernizers & go fix" rednafi.com/go/gofix/ #golang

Modernizers & go fix

Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix on the analysis framework. It modernizes your code and respects the Go version your module declares. The post covers the modernizers, the bigger x/tools suite, and what //go:fix inline can and can't migrate.

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#Go 1.26 revived the "go fix" command to migrate older APIs to the latest ones. Super satisfying to run it on a large codebase and see it purge all the old cruft. Blog post: rednafi.com/go/gofix/

Modernizers & go fix

Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix on the analysis framework. It modernizes your code and respects the Go version your module declares. The post covers the modernizers, the bigger x/tools suite, and what //go:fix inline can and can't migrate.

rednafi.com