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The Type Information Problem

Apr 10, 20266 min read

22x Faster Builds: Inside GALA's Compilation Performance Journey

Mar 29, 20266 min read

Dot Completion Without a Type Checker

Resolving receiver types from transpiler metadata when you don't have one

Apr 11, 20268 min read

Building a Reliable Transpiler: Lessons from 80+ Bug Fixes

Mar 29, 20269 min read

The State of GALA: March 2026

Mar 29, 20266 min read

samber/lo Has 21K Stars. Here's What It Would Look Like as a Language Feature.

samber/lo has 21,000 stars. samber/mo has 3,300. Together, they represent one of the loudest feature requests the Go community has ever filed -- not through proposals or GitHub issues, but through ado

Mar 19, 20269 min read

Library vs Language: Two Approaches to Functional Programming in Go

If you have used IBM's fp-go library, you know the promise of functional programming in Go -- and the pain of Go's syntax fighting you every step of the way. Pipe3, Pipe5, Pipe7. Function adapters eve

Mar 15, 202612 min read

Pattern Matching in Go: How GALA Brings Sealed Types and Exhaustive Matching to the Go Ecosystem

Go is a language built on simplicity. But simplicity has costs, and one cost Go developers feel acutely is the lack of pattern matching and algebraic data types. If you have ever modeled a closed set

Mar 15, 202611 min read

Enhancing Golang with Scala-Style Option Handling for Safer Code

As a developer and a fan of Scala and functional languages I really like to have an ability to be able to handle optional or nullable objects safely and be able to chain them to something new. Standard way to handle them in Golang is to handle them i...

Jul 4, 20242 min read

Unlocking Scala Mastery with my leetcode Solutions Archive

Introduction I have decided to dump my personal leetcode solutions archive. Currently it contains Scala solutions only. I will eventually publish all the remaining solutions in GO, JS and PHP and others. These solutions have been collected over years...

May 18, 20241 min read

Understanding Scala Extractors: An Easy-to-Follow Example

Let's implement a simple case class that represents a Time object that contains hours and minutes. For simplicity, we will use 24-hour clock. case class Time(hour: Hour, minutes: Minute) case class Hour(hour: Int) case class Minute(minute: Int) Now ...

Aug 12, 20233 min read

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