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The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science

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I like the idea. I use Go a lot but always go back to Python for quick scripting (often in Jupyter Notebooks). If it works like advertised, it could be really interesting!

Try it: https://play.goplus.org/

Missed opportunity to call it Go++.

They address it in the readme: “We will keep Go+ simple. This is why we call it Go+, not Go++.”

* For engineering: working in the simplest language that can be mastered by children

* For STEM education: studying an engineering language that can be used to work in the future

* For data science: communicating with engineers in the same language

It's very hard to compete with the momentum Python has on each of these points.

Python is a script, not a static typed language.

A list comprehension seems way more complicated for a child than a for loop. And even for a professional developer, one hides a lot of steps, the other one lists all of them

Agree. And there is spx - A Go+ 2D Game Engine for STEM education - https://github.com/goplus/spx

My comment was a bit incomplete, my point is "I'm not sure specifying the type is more complex than a list comprehension". Almost like the language is focusing on "complex visually" rather than focusing on making the features of the language simple

I see.

Same audience as https://julialang.org/ it would seem.

Julia is dynamically typed, while Go+ is static typed.

For most people on that target audience, Julia's type system is an advantage, plus there are type annotations.

Why not write python and transpile to Go? Py2many, grumpy etc can do this.

Somebody is going to do it due to your comment really, maybe 3 months time in the future

Yes, they planned to do this (see https://github.com/goplus/gop/milestone/8)

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