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same reaction i get when a project says "we ran doom on-chain!"

no you didn't. your chain can't even pass a thousand TPS without dying, it sure as hell can't run doom.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

As soon as humanly possible — we're making sure that mainnet data is upgraded safely at the moment.

should i still learn go? 

what would you recommend to be the focus to prepare for that?

If I might chime in, I’d recommend the tour of go to see the basics:

https://go.dev/tour 

Then try some of their tutorials: 

https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/getting-started

Then if you wanted a project, I personally think building CLIs in go is a lot of fun. This framework makes it pretty easy to do: 

https://cli.urfave.org/

Another option might be trying to build a backend API, also a great learning experience.

yes, QCL is a subset of golang – you basically get all the same features of the language (plus variable precision integers), minus goroutines, channels, and generics