Go Can Call GALA Now: GALA in October (0.85 → 0.92)
Go programs can now use GALA libraries with go get. Plus pointers that can't be nil, richer pattern matching, and interface literals.
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Data Races Are a Compile Error Now: GALA in July (0.63 -> 0.72)
Go's race detector samples a schedule and hopes. GALA makes a value that isn't safe to share across goroutines a build failure.
GALA in June: do-notation, applicative validation, and concurrent binds (0.56 -> 0.62)
June's 0.56 -> 0.62 releases: bind/also monadic do-notation, applicative validation with Validated, and concurrent binds over Future.
From Zero to a Go Module on Bazel in One Sitting: Onboarding to GALA 0.53
Importing a third-party Go module through Bazel and rules_gala - with concrete types across the seam, verified hands-on.
The State of GALA: May 2026
Eleven weeks, ~55 releases, and a new tagline: GALA hits 0.50.0 with cross-package generics, an LSP, and four new stdlib packages.
The State of GALA: March 2026
46 releases, 216 tests, 22x faster compilation — two months of building a language that transpiles to Go