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Productionizing the GALA Build Stack: rules_gala, a Real Toolchain, and Gazelle

1d ago · 10 min read · A language that transpiles to Go lives or dies by its build story. The language features can be elegant — sealed types, exhaustive pattern matching, type inference — but if wiring GALA into a real pro

The State of GALA: May 2026

May 29 · 9 min read · A follow-up to The State of GALA: March 2026. In March I wrote up where GALA stood: version 0.25.2, a couple of months old, 46 releases deep, with a rich standard library, a zero-reflection JSON codec

Splitting the Brain: Plugin vs LSP

Apr 14 · 7 min read · The GALA IDE experience runs on two processes. One is a Kotlin plugin inside IntelliJ. The other is a Go binary speaking LSP over stdio. They share a grammar, they share a user, and they disagree about almost everything else. This post explains why t...

Dot Completion Without a Type Checker

Apr 11 · 8 min read · The user types order. and pauses. The editor fires a textDocument/completion request. The LSP has about 100 milliseconds to figure out what order is, what methods and fields it has, and return a sorted list of suggestions with signatures. Most langua...

The Type Information Problem

Apr 10 · 6 min read · If you're building a language that compiles to native code, the path to editor tooling is well-understood: run your type checker, expose the results. But if your language transpiles to another high-level language, you're stuck in an awkward middle gr...