In tangentially related news. I've just posted an interesting comparison of how concurrency and parallelism are handled in #Golang, #Elixir, #Dylan, and #Raku
https://weblog.masukomi.org/2025/12/29/comparing-concurrency-and-parallelism-in-four-languages/
Unlike all my other posts this one *was* generated by an AI and is marked as such. That being said, I didn't set out to make a blog post with this. I just found the high level comparison fascinating and worth sharing.
should i try Go..? i am hesitant because its google but i feel like i would like the language. wonder how well it would do for gamedev.
The Firefly Zero game jam is now official! Build a game for the Firefly Zero handheld game console on the weekend of January 17-19.
Build a game in any of the supported languages: Rust, Go, Lua, Zig, C, C++, TypeScript, AssemblyScript, Elixir, MoonBit
Documentation and SDK’s are available on the website. It’s very easy to get going and no prior experience is necessary.
More information is available on the Itch.io page:
https://itch.io/jam/firefly-jam
Read more about the Firefly Zero handheld game console on their website:
https://fireflyzero.com/
#GameDev #retrogame #retrogamedev #Rust #RustLang #Go #GoLang #Lua #zig #TypeScript #AssemblyScript #Elixir #MoonBit #FireflyZero
The Firefly Zero game jam is now official! Build a game for the Firefly Zero handheld game console on the weekend of January 17-19.
Build a game in any of the supported languages: Rust, Go, Lua, Zig, C, C++, TypeScript, AssemblyScript, Elixir, MoonBit
Documentation and SDK’s are available on the website. It’s very easy to get going and no prior experience is necessary.
More information is available on the Itch.io page:
https://itch.io/jam/firefly-jam
Read more about the Firefly Zero handheld game console on their website:
https://fireflyzero.com/
#GameDev #retrogame #retrogamedev #Rust #RustLang #Go #GoLang #Lua #zig #TypeScript #AssemblyScript #Elixir #MoonBit #FireflyZero
My discoveries in 2025: https://skybert.net/various/my-discoveries-in-2025/
Don't read this if you love vibe coding or think AI is the best thing since sliced bread: https://skybert.net/aifail/dont-fear-the-pointer/
It's the story of how I realised the hard way what AI takes away from me as a developer, in addition to eroding the joy of coding and problem solving.
This is TSQLparser, a complete T-SQL parser written in Go. It's the kind of thing you use when you want to abandon Microsoft SQL Server for good (parser, lexer, and AST builder, to be exact).
And here it is, GPL 3.0 licenced, or email me if you have any other ideas:
h@ual.fi
https://github.com/ha1tch/tsqlparser
#golang #foss #tsql #mssql #mssqlserver #db #database #parser #microsoft #sql #sqlite #postgres
TinyGo 0.40 is out with many improvements to close out the year. Plenty of bugfixes and stability enhancements to make your life better and easier. New updates to the GC that are up to 10% faster! New boards! Go get it right now!
ual is a systems language for orchestration and embedded computation. It comes in two forms: a compiler targeting native binaries, and an interpreter for development. Both share the same runtime and produce identical results. This release marks the completion of runtime unification — the interpreter now has full parity with the compiler, including true goroutine-based concurrency, using Go as IR and bootstrapping tool.
ual is built on a specific philosophical foundation: that coordination is the primary problem of programming and that types and computation are subordinate within coordinated contexts. Data lives in typed stacks accessed through perspectives (LIFO, FIFO, Indexed, Hash). Time is explicit — blocking waits, timeouts are native. Errors must be acknowledged before proceeding.
Binaries available for:
Linux (amd64, arm64, arm, 386), macOS (Intel, Apple Silicon), Windows (64-bit, 32-bit), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
Release:
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/releases/tag/v0.7.3
Docs
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md
#ual #golang #foss #rust #rustlang #forth #programming #compsci
TinyGo 0.40 is out with many improvements to close out the year. Plenty of bugfixes and stability enhancements to make your life better and easier. New updates to the GC that are up to 10% faster! New boards! Go get it right now!
ual is a systems language for orchestration and embedded computation. It comes in two forms: a compiler targeting native binaries, and an interpreter for development. Both share the same runtime and produce identical results. This release marks the completion of runtime unification — the interpreter now has full parity with the compiler, including true goroutine-based concurrency, using Go as IR and bootstrapping tool.
ual is built on a specific philosophical foundation: that coordination is the primary problem of programming and that types and computation are subordinate within coordinated contexts. Data lives in typed stacks accessed through perspectives (LIFO, FIFO, Indexed, Hash). Time is explicit — blocking waits, timeouts are native. Errors must be acknowledged before proceeding.
Binaries available for:
Linux (amd64, arm64, arm, 386), macOS (Intel, Apple Silicon), Windows (64-bit, 32-bit), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
Release:
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/releases/tag/v0.7.3
Docs
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/main/docs/MANUAL.md
#ual #golang #foss #rust #rustlang #forth #programming #compsci
Go Proposal: Secret Mode
https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
#HackerNews #GoProposal #SecretMode #GoLang #Programming #HackerNews
I will be unemployed starting next year. If your company needs a #Golang developer who loves working with #legacy, writing #tests, tidying up architectures, and is motivated to learn new technologies, protocols, and tools, please write to me:
toby3d@toby3d.me
You can find and export my up-to-date #resume here:
https://toby3d.me/en/resume
@writefreely the project seems very much technologically and value aligned with @silverbulletmd: backend written in #golang, simple single binary deployment, open source, open standards, minimalist design. This may well become my recommended way of sharing content from #SilverBullet
But again, first need to hack together a proper integration in #lua. Seems straight forward enough, already got auth working.
I will be unemployed starting next year. If your company needs a #Golang developer who loves working with #legacy, writing #tests, tidying up architectures, and is motivated to learn new technologies, protocols, and tools, please write to me:
toby3d@toby3d.me
You can find and export my up-to-date #resume here:
https://toby3d.me/en/resume
I documented how to stream a response body in #golang with the net/http package https://0x1eef.github.io/posts/how-to-stream-a-response-body-in-go/
This is TSQLparser, a complete T-SQL parser written in Go. It's the kind of thing you use when you want to abandon Microsoft SQL Server for good (parser, lexer, and AST builder, to be exact).
And here it is, GPL 3.0 licenced, or email me if you have any other ideas:
h@ual.fi
https://github.com/ha1tch/tsqlparser
#golang #foss #tsql #mssql #mssqlserver #db #database #parser #microsoft #sql #sqlite #postgres
