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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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 read7Library 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
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 read36