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Maksim Martianov

@martianovSeattle, WAJoined August 2023

SWE at Snowflake. Ex-SWE Twitter/X, Route4me

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Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake. Expert in scalable architecture, cloud infra, and security. Passionate problem-solver and mentor.

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MMMaksim Martianovmartianov.devJul 5 · 8 min read

GALA in June: do-notation, applicative validation, and concurrent binds (0.56 -> 0.62)

A follow-up to The State of GALA: May 2026. In May, GALA hit 0.50.0 with sealed types, exhaustive pattern matching, a real monad stack (Option, Either, Try, Future, IO), and a functional standard libr

MMMaksim Martianovmartianov.devJun 14 · 8 min read

From Zero to a Go Module on Bazel in One Sitting: Onboarding to GALA 0.53

There's a specific moment that decides whether a new language is worth your time: the first time you try to use something from the ecosystem you already depend on. For a language that transpiles to Go

MMMaksim Martianovmartianov.devJun 5 · 10 min read

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

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

MMMaksim Martianovmartianov.devMay 29 · 9 min read

The State of GALA: May 2026

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

MMMaksim Martianovmartianov.devApr 14 · 7 min read

Splitting the Brain: Plugin vs LSP

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...