Let's Go

So without making a conscious choice I’ve been using and loving some excellent Go-lang software: Hugo, GoToSocial, and Readeck. I don’t know Go but I’ve picked up some templating from customizing Hugo (which powers this blog), is it time I learned more? Let’s Go!!! I don’t engineer/code for work anymore so I don’t have proficiency in any specific language and for some reason that has been bothersome. I do write some ad-hoc and nominal (terrible) Python and SQL, neither of which I have written professionally before, so I’ve been thinking about increasing my Python proficiency. But… that’s not where my tinkering/crafting heart has been, although FastHTML for Python is a really interesting proposition. I’ve also rooted around in Rust-Lang and really love the core concepts of borrow-checker and memory-safety; wish I had that when I was (poorly) working in embedded software (so. many. segfaults.). I’ve read some of the Rust book and even contribute a bit to a Rust project (Ringfairy) but…