Cameron Balahan

@cameronbalahan

Product lead @golang @Google. Also lawyer, entrepreneur, engineer, and amateur astrophysicist.

New York

Joined March 2009

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Cameron Balahan
@cameronbalahan
Aug 11
People sometimes ask whether our choice of programming language matters anymore, now that AI writes so much of our code for us. As @rseroter and I write, our choice of programming language actually matters more than ever.
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Cameron Balahan
@cameronbalahan
May 21
#GoogleIO had some very cool presentations this week, the best of which might be a product keynote from the Go team on everything that’s new in Go 1.25 and Go 1.26. Check out everything we launched in the last year—including the new Green Tea GC, native SIMD, deterministic code
What's new in Go
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Cameron Balahan
@cameronbalahan
May 19
Pretty excited about the "Go-based" part of this! We're seeing teams all over Google adopt Go for their agent-driven products--now including Antigravity CLI.
Dmitry Lyalin
@LyalinDotCom
May 19
Hey Gemini 3.5 flash, what do you think @geminicli users should know about the new Antigravity CLI? The News: Google is transitioning Gemini CLI into Antigravity CLI, a faster, Go-based terminal experience designed for multi-agent orchestration and asynchronous background
Cameron Balahan
@cameronbalahan
Feb 10
Go 1.26 has a lot to love, including significant performance improvements that are completely transparent to Go developers. Just upgrade and your Go programs run significantly faster -- no other changes required!
Go
@golang
Feb 10
🌟 Go 1.26.0 is released! 📝 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.26 ⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0 #golang
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Cameron Balahan
@cameronbalahan
Mar 12, 2025
It’s always exciting to see a high-profile dev team celebrate a 10x performance gain in their project since switching to Go. It’s extra exciting when that project is the TypeScript compiler and toolchain. devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typ…