Thanks for the comment (author here). I wanted this post to focus on the Golang specific implementation, not dwell on the durable execution ecosystem at large.
With respect to context, I don't know that anyone invented "having their own context". Go interface are extendable and pretty much every major framework I know of implement their own context.
Would love to learn more about the gaps that offset you. We're constantly improving here ;)
Thanks, I didn't mean it as criticism, I guess my 5am brain thought the way it was worded almost came off as like "look at our unique idea" which was a pretty common pattern.
In review, I think it might have been the workflow versioning being strange, and the lack of any heartbeating/crash detection for longer running activities