The Go+ Programming Language

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Our vision is to enable everyone to create production-level applications.

Easy to learn

• Simple and easy to understand
• Smaller syntax set than Python in best practices

Ready for large projects

• Derived from Go and easy to build large projects from its good engineering foundation

The Go+ programming language is designed for engineering, STEM education, and data science.

• For engineering: working in the simplest language that can be mastered by children.
• For STEM education: studying an engineering language that can be used for work in the future.
• For data science: communicating with engineers in the same language.

For more details, see Quick Start.

Go+ Classfiles

Rob Pike once said that if he could only introduce one feature to Go, he would choose interface instead of goroutine. classfile is as important to Go+ as interface is to Go.

In the design philosophy of Go+, we do not recommend DSL (Domain Specific Language). But SDF (Specific Domain Friendliness) is very important. The Go+ philosophy about SDF is:

Don't define a language for specific domain.
Abstract domain knowledge for it.

Go+ introduces classfile to abstract domain knowledge. See Go+ Classfiles.

Key Features of Go+

• A static typed language.
• The simplest engineering language that can be mastered by children (script-like style).
• Performance: as fast as Go (Go+'s main backend compiles to human-readable Go).
• Fully compatible with Go and can mix Go/Go+ code in the same package (see Go/Go+ hybrid programming).
• No DSL (Domain Specific Language) support, but SDF (Specific Domain Friendliness).
• Support Go code generation (main backend) and bytecode backend (REPL: see iGo+).
• Simplest way to interaction with C (cgo is supported but not recommended).
• Powerful built-in data processing capabilities.

How to install

on Windows

winget install goplus.gop

on Debian/Ubuntu

sudo bash -c ' echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://pkgs.goplus.org/apt/ /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goplus.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gop

on RedHat/CentOS/Fedora

sudo bash -c 'echo -e "[goplus]\nname=Go+ Repo\nbaseurl=https://pkgs.goplus.org/yum/\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=0" > /etc/yum.repos.d/goplus.repo'
sudo yum install gop

on macOS/Linux (Homebrew)

Install via brew

$ brew install goplus

from source code

For now, we suggest you install Go+ from source code.

Note: Requires go1.18 or later

git clone https://github.com/goplus/gop.git
cd gop

# On mac/linux run:
./all.bash
# On Windows run:
all.bat

Go+ Applications

2D Games powered by Go+

• A Go+ 2D Game Engine for STEM education
• Aircraft War
• Flappy Bird
• Maze Play
• BetaGo
• Gobang
• Dinosaur

HTTP Web Framework

• yap: Yet Another Go/Go+ HTTP Web Framework

HTTP Test

• yaptest: HTTP Test Framework

DevOps tools

• Go+ DevOps Tools

Data processing

• HTML DOM Query Language for Go+

IDE Plugins

• vscode: https://github.com/goplus/vscode-gop

Contributing

The Go+ project welcomes all contributors. We appreciate your help!

For more details, see Contributing & compiler design.

Give a Star! ⭐

If you like or are using Go+ to learn or start your projects, please give it a star. Thanks!