lisette

If you are interested in Gossamer, you may also be interested in Lis, which is Rust flavored and compiles to go: https://github.com/ivov/lisette From their readme: Safe and expressive: - Hindley-Milner type system - Algebraic data types, pattern matching - Expression-oriented, immutable by default - Rust-like syntax plus |> operator and try blocks - Go-style interfaces, channels, goroutines Quietly practical: - Interop with Go ecosystem (WIP) - Linter, formatter, 250+ diagnostics - Fast incremental compiler, readable Go - LSP for VSCode, Neovim, Zed, Helix, GoLand

Theres is also gleam that did this "upfront", and actully has a decent type system, im not sure if this effort is that relevant. On the flipside this is a good effort nontheless. For go there is also lisette (https://github.com/ivov/lisette/) that has a very similar dev-exp to gleam. As a bonus you get all the goodies if go and a static binary. Lots of stuff happening in the language space at the moment.

The issue is there are a number of Golang alternative languages. Solod has a lot of competition (from most to least GitHub stars): 1) https://github.com/vlang/v (Vlang) 2) https://github.com/odin-lang/odin (Odin) 3) https://github.com/goplus/xgo (Xgo, formerly Goplus) 4) https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo (Borgo) 5) https://github.com/mitchellh/gox (Gox) 6) https://github.com/MadAppGang/dingo (Dingo) 7) https://github.com/ivov/lisette (Lisette) 8) https://github.com/anzellai/sky (Sky) 9) https://github.com/halcyonnouveau/soppo (Soppo)

You are right, and thank you for pointing this out. I've opened an issue: https://github.com/ivov/lisette/issues/12 I have a few approaches in mind and will be addressing this soon.

Support for Go third-party packages is not part of this first release, but the tooling to generate bindings for Go packages (which enables imports from the Go stdlib) is already in place[1]. Extending it to support third-party packages is on the roadmap. [1] https://github.com/ivov/lisette/blob/main/tools/bindgen/READ...