iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang

Why isn't this pre-populated with examples that demonstrate the advantages of IGo?

EDIT: Oh, weird. After refreshing I now see it.

same thing happened to me, except I saw the first two lines of the example. weird.

I am usually wary of new languages, because they come at a great cost. All the code I've written, libraries I've discovered, standard library I'm used to and take for granted are suddenly gone, and I have to start from scratch. On the plus side, the new language may have desirable aspects that are improved.

However, this is not that. Despite looking like a different language, in reality, it's just a different _interface_ to writing/reading Go. It's completely compatible with all the libraries, tools that work on Go code because it _is_ Go code, simply expressed via a different representation of the Go AST.

I think that is a really nice way to experiment with the positive aspects of new languages/syntaxes. Nicely done!

It's hilarious to see someone add semantic whitespace to Go, which seems to be the opposite of Python With Braces[0].

I'm in the whitespace > braces camp, but mandatory braces help with the dangling else problem and makes it easier for the parser.

[0] http://www.pythonb.org/

No. Go is beautifully straightforward and blatantly obvious as to what is going on. Don't start hiding scopes behind tabs or magically creating variables referencing structs.

Plus, with all these changes, this syntax saved 5 lines of code, most of which were simply closing braces, and brought no greater clarity. In fact, I'd argue it's probably pretty easy to mess up scope in the iGo example and never know it.