I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy(audiotext.live)
13 pointsby functional_dev16 hours ago5 comments
  • functional_dev16 hours 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.

    • honeycrispy15 hours ago
      Rust isn't functional. It's an expression language.
      • functional_dev15 hours ago
        You are technically right, that is not a functional language. But it borrows many things from functional world :)
  • dfajgljsldkjag15 hours ago
    None of this happened. The entire article is made up by AI.
    • eterm15 hours 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_dev15 hours 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 :)
  • drivebyhooting15 hours 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_dev15 hours 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.
  • linkregister15 hours ago
    The layout is broken on mobile Firefox. It looks similar to when CSS fails to load.
    • functional_dev14 hours ago
      That is strange. Just tried it on Firefox (Desktop), and it loaded fine. Any tips how to identify what is the issue?
  • canadiantim15 hours 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_dev14 hours ago
      What browser are you using? It loads up for me fine. Could you help me to debug that, please?
      • canadiantim13 hours 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_dev11 hours ago
          It's probably SRI. I disabled "Email Address Obfuscation" in Cloudflare. It was probably misfiring.
        • functional_dev12 hours 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!