The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
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Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#2* 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
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#3I 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!
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#4Missed opportunity to call it Go++.
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#5Missed 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++.”
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#6* 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.
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#7Why not write python and transpile to Go? Py2many, grumpy etc can do this.
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#8Same audience as https://julialang.org/ it would seem.
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#9Why 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
Re: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
#10I 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/