One year of writing software in Go

A year ago, I started writing my first professional project in Go. Until then, I had never written a single line of that programming language. Most of my prior work has always been in Python and Java. This article summarises my experience with the language, peppered with some opinions here and there. However, this is not an opinion and judgement on the language. This is also not a guide on how to learn Go. ...

October 15, 2024 · 7 min · Pranjal Datta

Why college isn't irrelevant

Why am I here? Source: https://www.bankrate.com/ I recently completed my undergrad in CS Engineering and graduated. Like most of my peers around the world — past or present — during the course, I firmly believed in the irrelevance of college education (apart from being yet another checkbox in a status-driven society). Now that I am on the other side, and with the benefit of hindsight, context, and more importantly, distance from temporal and localized pain, I’ve come around 180 degrees — I think college and your degree are relevant, probably more than ever. This is a long read. I have provided a table of contents so that you can jump around. There’s also a summary in the end for the folks interested in a quick read. ...

June 11, 2022 · 12 min · Pranjal Datta

Hello, World!

So after months of procrastination and delay, I finally got around to working on this personal site! The idea is pretty simple: a concise, simple website to serve as my blog. Most of the stuff would be around software and tech (with some minor digressions here and there). Hopefully, you would enjoy reading some of these articles! Thanks!

August 11, 2021 · 1 min · Pranjal Datta