22x Faster Builds: Inside GALA's Compilation Performance Journey
How profiling, batch analysis, and content-addressed caching took multi-file compilation from 44.7s to 2.0s
Mar 29, 20266 min read5
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GALA From the Ground Up
A ten-part technical blog series exploring GALA — a modern programming language that brings sealed types, pattern matching, monadic error handling, and immutable-by-default semantics to the Go ecosystem. Each post takes a single concept, shows the problem it solves with real code, compares it to idiomatic Go, and is honest about trade-offs. Written for Go developers who want more expressiveness and functional programmers who want Go's runtime.
Building a Reliable Transpiler: Lessons from 80+ Bug Fixes
What breaks when you map functional programming onto Go's type system, and how testing infrastructure keeps it fixed
Mar 29, 20269 min read3The State of GALA: March 2026
46 releases, 216 tests, 22x faster compilation — two months of building a language that transpiles to Go
Mar 29, 20266 min read7samber/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 read12
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 read63
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 read27