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I just learned about Lisette, and from there Gala. Any thoughts on Lisette vs Gala?

Never used gala, but it seems going a bit more down the deep end, frankly it has features is dislike / would never use.

Lisette has been pretty straight forward, with its good Go interrop and familiarity (i have ocaml experience). Tooling is GREAT for such a young language. Im also a huge fan of the recent addition of a "zero" value. No nils like you get in vanilla Go.

I tend to write libraries in Lisette i then import in my go "shell", thats more or less a main function with some setup.

Full (lisette->go->lisette) Go interrop is still a WIP, but im certain it will be improved upon soon.

Thank you for the reply! There's very little public discussion (at least that I can find) about people's experiences writing Lisette, the language, or how well agents do with it so far so I really appreciate it. Been debating past couple days if I spend some of my claude sub tokens to try a partial rewrite of some code.

Yeah, i think lisette just needs some time (its pre 1.0, so probably not used in prod), but that said i read Listte is actually already used for building compilers for other languages.

Some people like to live on the bleeding edge, and once again, that said, the Go runtime is just so good so you have a solid base, and can always eject from lisette by just keeping the generated Go source. That makes it a more safe language to choose.

It seems to me like both Gala and Lisette are fairly safe to invest in for small projects that you'd otherwise write Go in assuming you have the token budget and patience to be able to as ask an agent to make the generated Go more idiomatic afterwards / do a native Go rewrite if needed.

I'm still not sure if I would rather test out Gala or Lisette or both, I appreciate hearing you've had a positive experience with Lisette!

Not sure about gala, but lisette produces good and readable go-code. There is a prelude (option, reault etc) package you possible would want to get rid of if you ejected. But an LLM could easily do this manual task for you pretty easily.

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