I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

http://audiotext.live/blog/posts/hate-go-saved-startup-architecture/

by functional_dev • 6 months ago

14 15 6 months ago

Author here. I’m a huge FP snob (Rust/Scala) so using Go for this project kinda hurt at first.

But as a solo founder, I needed speed. The main thing I learned is that LLMs write amazing Go code. It's so simple and boilerplate-heavy that the AI almost never hallucinates.

Ended up building a distributed audio ingestion system that undercuts Twilio by like 80%.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or other things.

honeycrispy• 6 months ago

Rust isn't functional. It's an expression language.

functional_dev8• 6 months ago

You are technically right, that is not a functional language. But it borrows many things from functional world :)

canadiantim2• 6 months ago

Just a heads up but I don’t think your site is loading the css correctly for whatever reason. I’m just getting html when I load it

functional_dev8• 6 months ago

What browser are you using? It loads up for me fine. Could you help me to debug that, please?

canadiantim2• 6 months ago

So it’s funny on chrome and safari I only get the html, no css.

But on brave it loads perfectly.

I’m on an iPhone 16.

I will add that I do appreciate the perspective your article gave me, so thank you for writing and sharing! Will have to finally actually explore Go

linkregister• 6 months ago

The layout is broken on mobile Firefox. It looks similar to when CSS fails to load.

functional_dev8• 6 months ago

That is strange. Just tried it on Firefox (Desktop), and it loaded fine. Any tips how to identify what is the issue?

dfajgljsldkjag• 6 months ago

None of this happened. The entire article is made up by AI.

eterm• 6 months ago

It's a shame, because there may well be a kernel of truth to some of it, but it's dipped so deep in LLMage that it taints the rest.

functional_dev8• 6 months ago

English is not my first language, and you nailed it. I used LLM to "polish" it. Probably too much. But I am open for questions if you like :)

drivebyhooting• 6 months ago

Are LLMs better at writing go because it is a simple language, or is it because there is just a lot more training data?

functional_dev8• 6 months ago

Could be both. I have used LLMs quite heavily on Rust (at work) and Haskell at leisure. And it is much harder to MOVE FAST.

I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

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