This at least seems to improve the situation of marshalling to/from an interface directly slightly by providing the ability to pass custom Unmarshalers for a specific type (via json.WithUnmarshalers and json.UnmarshalFunc) to the Unmarshal functions, but it appears to still have the inefficient double-decode problem. Or I just haven't found a decent way around it yet.

Looks like they're intentionally punting on a first class solution until (if) the language gets some sort of sum type, but I still think the second-class solution could do a bit more to make this extremely common use-case more convenient. Pretty much every serious production Go app I've worked on in the last 10 years or so has had some horrible coping strategy for the "map a field-discriminated object to/from implementations of an interface" gap, often involving some sort of double-unmarshal.

Quote from the proposal [1]:

> First-class support for union types: It is common for the type of a particular JSON value to be dynamically changed based on context. This is difficult to support in Go as the equivalent of a dynamic value is a Go interface. When unmarshaling, there is no way in Go reflection to enumerate the set of possible Go types that can be stored in a Go interface in order to choose the right type to automatically unmarshal a dynamic JSON value. Support for such use cases is deferred until better Go language support exists.

  [1]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-json-experiment/json
  [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71497
  [3]: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/63397

Heads up about the modernc library, it has been stuck on an old version of sqlite for several months [1]. It seems like maintainer time is the limiting factor [2]. There has been a call to arms on that issue page, the maintainer is looking for help, but it looks like not much has arrived. It seems like it might trace back to blockers in the C-to-Go compiler.

It's a major undertaking and a very impressive piece of work, but I'm not surprised it's a struggle when big roadblocks get hit. I hope they find a way to progress, but I'm very relieved to be seeing some CGo-free alternatives like ncruces/go-sqlite3 emerging. I'm going to give it a try for sure and see if I can live with the compromises.

Squinn-go looks very compelling too, but I don't like that it requires the squinn binary to already be installed on a user's machine, I think that gives with one hand and takes with the other: sure, I get to avoid CGo, but I also lose the turnkey, single-command install, static build benefits Go brings out of the box.

Seconding the point about nitty gritty, I'd read it for sure too!

  [1]: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/issues/154
  [2]: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/issues/164

  [1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0591/

I'd love to see this one addressed but it's not looking too hopeful at this stage.

But I think this is less about specific phrases one might need to be careful not to say, and more about the kinds of default attitudes that can turn into ongoing impediments to the free flow of ideas. It's definitely possible ask "what problem does this solve" without becoming the "What Problem Does This Solve Person", and the same goes for the other phrases too.

I wonder if they started out as "That Won't Work" people, but evolved better defenses?

> Git on Windows client corrupts files > 4Gb

It's apparently an upstream issue with Git on Windows, but if you depend on something, you inherit its issues.

There are tons of proprietary escape codes, not least of all the incredibly useful one for "fireworks"! [1]

    ^[]1337;RequestAttention=fireworks^G

[1]: https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/

I tried to use the profiling flags to get some data to file reports, but ran out of yak-shaving time when I realised was trying to flush out a bug in the tool command helpers in golang/go where it would write empty profiles if the process was shut down the exact way vim was shutting it down. That may have been fixed since, I haven't had a chance to look back into it.