Alan Donovan
adonovan.bsky.social
Alan Donovan
@adonovan.bsky.social
Software engineer at Google in New York, developing analysis and refactoring tools for Go (#golang). Co-author of "The Go Programming Language" (gopl.io).
Hi @erikdmartin.bsky.social 👋. Do you know when videos of this year's GopherCon talks are expected? Thanks.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@mattyglesias.bsky.social you say "movie tickets are in fact cheaper in real terms" after adjusting for inflation. But doesn't that just mean ticket prices grew less than the "basket" average? And if your wages grew even less than the average, then "cheaper, inflation adjusted" is no comfort at all.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Gopls v0.20.0 is released: go.dev/gopls/releas...
$ go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.20.0
Docs at go.dev/gopls.
Thanks to all who contributed!
Gopls release v0.20.0 - The Go Programming Language
go.dev
July 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@jmmv.dev I liked your Bazel reproducibility post. I wonder: does Bazel have an option to try each build action twice and check consistency? This would make it easy to diagnose nondeterminism when you suspect it. CI systems could do it with some nonzero probability too.
July 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Enjoyed your 2 books on GR, QFT. Steep climb! In final third of both, had to get comfortable with only the loosest grasp. (I have only 1990s A-level + lay reading of Feynmann lectures.) But left with impression of how physics is done. Many thanks!
July 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Please try out the gopls pre-release and report any problems!
$ go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.19.0-pre.2

Many bugs fixed and lots of new features. (Pre-)release notes can be found here:
cs.opensource.google/go/x/tools/+... (click "preview")
The Go Programming Language
golang.org
June 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM