Series

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.

Splitting the Brain: Plugin vs LSP
Why GALA's IDE runs on two processes and the sync contract that keeps them honest
Apr 14, 20267 min read5
Dot Completion Without a Type Checker
Resolving receiver types from transpiler metadata when you don't have one
Apr 11, 20268 min read1
The Type Information Problem
When your transpiler knows the types but your editor doesn't
Apr 10, 20266 min read5
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
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 read3
The 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 read8

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