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AI in Go
Shouldn't You Be Using Python?
Principle
Assembly Language
The Language Where You Tell the Machine What to Do and the Machine Does It
Principle
C++
The Language That Made riclib Swear Off Both the Language and the Operating System
Technology
COBOL
The Language That Runs the World and Embarrasses It
Technology
CSS
The Language Where Every Line Is a Negotiation and Every !important Is a Confession
Technology
Delphi
The Answer That Arrived Twenty Years Before the Industry Understood the Question
Technology
FORTRAN
The Language That Computed the Universe Before the Universe Had GitHub
Technology
GNU
The Operating System That Wrote Everything Except the Operating System
Entity
Go
The Language That Refused to Be Interesting
Technology
Greenspun's Tenth Rule
The Other Nine Were Never Needed
Principle
HTML
The Document That Became an Application Platform Despite Its Best Efforts
Technology
JSON
The Data Format That Won by Not Trying
Technology
Java
Write Once, Abstract Everywhere, Deploy Eventually
Technology
JavaScript
The Language That Was Born in Ten Days and Has Been Shipping for Thirty Years Without a Spec Review
Phenomenon
Kotlin
The Apology Letter Java Should Have Written Itself
Technology
Lambda Expressions
The Anonymous Functions That Almost Became a Career and Then Became Hindu Written by a Drunk Russian
Phenomenon
LangChain
47,000 Lines of Abstraction Around a POST Request
Tool
Linux
The Operating System That Won Everything Except the Desktop
Technology
Lisp
The Language Where Parentheses Are the Point and the Checkerboard Was a Byte
Technology
MSX
The Borrowed Computer, the Video Club, and the First Software Ever Sold
Technology
Pascal
The Language That University Taught While the Student Was Building Quad-Buffered Async I/O on an Amiga
Technology
Prolog
The Language That Figured Out the How If You Gave It the What
Technology
Python
The Language Where the Prototype Became Production and Nobody Noticed
Technology
Rust
Assembly Language for People Who Think They Want Assembly Language
Technology
SQL
The Language That Won in 1970 and Has Been Winning Ever Since
Technology
SQLWindows
The General-Purpose Language That Wasn't, Used as One Anyway
Technology
Spectrum BASIC
POKE Before Facebook, PEEK Before Privacy Died
Technology
Vibe Coding
It Works Until It Doesn't, and Then You Can't Fix It
Phenomenon
Vibe In Go
It Really Is the Only Choice — Let Me Show You Why
Principle
Wadler's Law
The Heat Death of Language Design Committees
Principle
XML
The Format That Could Describe Anything and Therefore Described Everything, Verbosely
Technology
Z80 Assembly
The Language Where Every Cycle Was Yours and Every Instruction Was Negotiable
Technology
Zig
The Language That Trusted the Programmer and the Programmer Deserved It
Technology
context.Context
The Bag That Carries Everything and Contains Nothing
Technology