Re:Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM
by xigoi on Sunday June 01, 2025 @06:48AM
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Considering that it’s supposed to be a “better Go”, there are some things it does worse than Go, such as type-before-name or using less-than and greater-than signs for type parameters.
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Re:Show HN: A new programming language inspired by Go, no LLVM
by hualaka on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:19AM
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I really enjoy thinking about such issues. I actually spend a lot of time considering whether to use type prefixes or suffixes, [] or <>, and ultimately settled on “<>”.
In my opinion, the change from `<>` to `[]` is a minor adjustment. `<>` is already widely adopted, and I don't want to break with convention for such a small benefit.
The position of the type is similarly considered. Postfixing the type has some advantages over prefixing it, but those advantages aren't sufficient for me to break with convention.