:wave: Hey there, I'm working on the Go library and just wanted to confirm your suspicion:

"since Golang doesn't have decorators in the same way Python does, we still have to have code doing the kind of "manual callback" style I mentioned"

That's exactly right, specifically for steps. We considered other ways to wrap the workflow calls (so you don't have to do dbos.RunWorkflow(yourFunction)), but they got in the way of providing compile time type checking.

As Qian said, under the hood the Golang SDK is an embedded orchestration package that just requires Postgres to automate state management.

For example, check the RunWorkflow implementation: https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang/blob/0afae2...

It does all the durability logic in-line with your code and doesn't rely on an external service.

Thanks for taking the time to share your insights! This was one of the most interesting HN comment I've seen in a while :)