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I haven't touched Go in about 10 or 15 years, but with the recent announcement from the TypeScript team, I started to look into it more again, and it seems most of the issues I had with it have since been fixed. And one of the key takeaways from that announcement for me was that status quo Go is about 10x faster than the most optimizable JS you could write.

This got me thinking, Anders and the TS team are probably going to offer upstream some significant contributions to the Go toolchain and language (for their own sake of course, but it benefits everyone) and Go will get even faster and evolve a better type system. And the gap between clean JavaScript and vanilla Go is likely to get smaller and smaller, in terms of semantics. (I just learned a week ago that there's a struct proposal for JS.)

How do you see this going over the next 15 years? I wondered about 10 years ago if TypeScript would ever become part of JS, and that's starting to come true with the type-annotations proposal. Is it possible that the bridge between JS and Go will just shrink? That JS will evolve into Go? That WASM's ergonomics will evolve to make third party languages more "naturalized" citizens, with almost nothing getting between an e.g. Go module and a JS module or differentiating them except the file extension?

What do you all think?

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I've been working on a gamified coding project that aims to make programming feel more exploratory and fun, especially for younger or newer coders.

This is a demo of one of the challenge types: Glitch Gambit, a short, story-driven puzzle where you inspect a small C/C++/Java snippet and figure out what’s happening. It could involve a hidden bug, an unexpected output, or decoding the program’s intent. https://aspinix.com/glitch-gambit-demo

The goal is to experiment with short code-based challenges (currently in C/C++/Java) that focus on: > Finding bugs > Predicting output > Understanding what code does

There's a light narrative element layered in, and it's part of a larger concept involving a world map and progressive levels.

Would love feedback on what works, what doesn't, and whether this kind of experience feels worth building further.

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