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

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

14•functional_dev•3w ago

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functional_dev•3w 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•3w ago

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

functional_dev•3w ago

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

canadiantim•3w 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_dev•3w ago

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

canadiantim•3w 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

functional_dev•3w ago

Thanks for follow up!

I suspect this is cloudflare doing some auto-minifying. It injects the "integrity" tags and something does not match. I will try to turn it off.

Thanks again!

functional_dev•3w ago

It's probably SRI. I disabled "Email Address Obfuscation" in Cloudflare. It was probably misfiring.

linkregister•3w ago

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

functional_dev•3w ago

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

dfajgljsldkjag•3w ago

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

eterm•3w 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_dev•3w 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•3w 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_dev•3w 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.

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