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Being fairly familiar with Temporal, I definitely appreciate your cleaner architectural choices. Add a Go SDK and I’ll definitely give this a try.

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Someone already contributed an MVP; in the next few months we'll be adopting it fully and upgrading it to 1.0 (we hired the awesome Azmy after he built it) https://github.com/muhamadazmy/restate-sdk-go

I think this is a point worth highlighting much more prominently in your marketing.

In my mind, this moved restate from “huh, that’s cool” to “during tomorrow’s standup, I’m going to ask one of my engineers to build a poc.”

It's not on 1.0 yet, and it was written by someone external (who we have hired, but hasn't started yet :D). So I would say Go is still in coming soon mode, unless you want to just do a POC on 0.8.1 (which is fine, someone on the discord is running that in prod anyhow)

Super excited to hear what you do with it though!

When you do consider adopting it fully, I highly recommend trying to make the state handling as transparent as possible to the end consumer. For example, implementing an HTTP Client that wraps a http.RoundTripper versus what that SDK provides.

Evaluating a selection of these durable workflow SDKs for Go, I'm not keen on being tightly coupled to a vendor and the implementation shouldn't be that crazy to fit into existing Go interfaces.

(Disclaimer, I work for Restate on SDKs) We definitely plan to introduce helpers for the common use cases, for example right now we provide helpers to generate random numbers or uuids. We could definitely provide a wrapped HTTP client that records the HTTP calls you perform and store them in Restate, in particular in Golang this should be easier than in other languages, given the std library provides itself an HTTP client we can wrap/integrate on.

In general, we aim to make our SDKs as tweakable as possible, such that you could easily overlay your API on top of our SDKs to create your own experience.

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