How I learned Go in a Day with Antigravity 2.0 and How You Can Do the Same

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Alex "Sandu" Astrum

Developer Relations, Antigravity

I have been exploring how to reclaim my software stack from NPM dependency overhead and replace my resource-intensive Node.js runtime with a compiled, single-binary Go CLI. The result of my efforts is skl, a fast tool we use for managing Agent Skills, that launches in 2ms and uses only 11MB of memory.

But how exactly did I do it?

Simply, I set the architectural goals and audited the logic, while Antigravity handled the mechanical work of code translation, test generation, and platform path mappings for us. This post describes the step-by-step walkthrough of our migration workflow to help you build yours.

Step 0: Seed personal learning goals

Before writing any code, you start by defining the boundaries of your project. In our case, I wanted a zero-dependency core that used minimal external packages. I decided that our CLI tool needs to be fast,...

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