Mastodawn

I like to learn by teaching. It reveals the gaps in my knowledge and tests my understanding. Started writing a book for the #zig community and spent months writing the code, making sure each block of code builds and the language makes sense. In the midst of writing content for the second-half of the book, I paused. I started to ask myself about the meaning of it all in a post-AI world. I’m beginning to question the value of it to the community when the problem it solves is a prompt or two away.

definitepotato Mar 21

One of the most practical and useful books of my career has been the Thorsten Ball series of writing an interpret/compiler in #golang. I wanted to give to the #zig community so I've written a guide/book at https://www.definitepotato.dev/books/ called From Interpreter To Compiler in Zig.

It's essentially Thorsten Ball's structure but in Zig. I plan to maintain it as the zig compiler develops and I learn to do better.

Books

Online books by definitepotato

definitepotato

definitepotato Feb 23

" What should we do with CLs generated by #AI "?

A discussion on `golang-dev` begins when a #Golang dev noticed Claude as a co-author on a contribution. Responses from people other #Go devs include legal issues, licensing issues and extensive thoughts. Interesting post to read and follow:

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/4Li4Ovd_ehE/m/UU87HnL5DgAJ?pli=1

What should we do with CLs generated by AI?

definitepotato Feb 13

Two new packages management features just added to #ziglang

- Fetched packages are now stored locally in the zig-pkg directory
- The zig build command gets a fork flag to override the entire dependency tree of a project given a path to the source

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

definitepotato Feb 11

#golang 1.26 is released https://go.dev/blog/go1.26

- new built-in function
- gc performance improvements
- go fix command has been rewritten
- experimental simd operations added
- experimental temporaries secret eraser added
- experimental goroutine leak detection added

Go 1.26 is released - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.26 adds a new garbage collector, cgo overhead reduction, experimental simd/archsimd package, experimental runtime/secret package, and more.

definitepotato Jan 30

AI could force popular #FOSS projects to close PR submissions from the public.

definitepotato Jan 24

Results from the latest #golang developer survey conducted in September2025.

https://go.dev/blog/survey2025

Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey - The Go Programming Language

The 2025 Go Developer Survey results, focused on developer sentiment towards Go, use cases, challenges, and developer environments.

definitepotato Jan 21

The juice has arrived at https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/30644

I've written a quick summary of what this merge means for #zig in 0.16.0 https://www.definitepotato.dev/posts/20260120-zig-juicy-merged/

std: delete `os.environ`, `os.argv`, add new parameter to `main`, move process API to `std.Io`

Happy New Year! 🥳 I'm celebrating the arrival of 2026 in my favorite way: breaking "Hello, World!" again! Mainly the goal was to delete the "environ" global variable as well as the "argv" global variable because they are footguns. However, in doing so, I ended up needing to integrate process API...

Codeberg.org

definitepotato Jan 16

An interactive tour of what's coming to #golang 1.26 next month

https://antonz.org/go-1-26/