Fork in the road: C or Elixir/Kotlin/Swift

I decided to start learning Go for a small handful of reasons: Go has massive concurrency Go emphasizes simplicity Go compiles down to a single binary so it's easy to distribute I want to better understand pointers Companies and projects that I trust use it (Docker, K8s, Netflix, Twitch, Digital Ocean, Caddy, ddev, etc) I …

Working from a todo list again: future toy projects and languages

It's been a long time since I was working from a todo list on one of my projects. The last time was probably SacMusic back in May. Ironically, my todo list is for my todo app in Go. So far my impressions of Go are mixed. I like the simplicity of the language and I …

Time to branch out past web

There's a lot of speculation that with the oncoming recession, companies will be more inclined to build hybrid web apps than full-blown native applications. I think that's right. Having said that, the state of web app wrappers is less than ideal. Ionic pushes developers towards an ionic-first SPA. Cordova doesn't seem particularly well-respected for reasons …