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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...

22x Faster Builds: Inside GALA's Compilation Performance Journey

Mar 29 · 6 min read · In GALA 0.24.0, we reduced compilation time for multi-file packages from 44.7 seconds to 2.7 seconds -- a 22x improvement. This post covers what was slow, how we found it, and what we did about it. The Problem GALA transpiles .gala files to .go files...

Building a Reliable Transpiler: Lessons from 80+ Bug Fixes

Mar 29 · 9 min read · GALA has shipped 46 releases in two months. Along the way, we have fixed over 80 bugs in type inference, code generation, cross-package resolution, and build tooling. This post is an honest account of what went wrong, how we caught it, and what we le...