Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support

• pcz

  5 168 6.8 Go

  A reimagination of Go, using unmodified official toolchain

  

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

"adapting to the platform" is mostly related to the goroutine topic, as we are working on the js/wasm support and these applications prefer async/await operations.

re: goroutines

the official go runtime spawns goroutines during program startup, which makes the usage of M:N goruntine mandatory, and they have to call lockOSThread()[1] before initializing packages for certain applications (mostly GUI application).

We like the design of goroutines (especially the idea of a `g` register), but `pcz` currently doesn't have goroutine support, and we are making it possible to spawn goroutines with custom allocator (with or without gc) and scheduler attached, so you can chose 1:1, M:N model for goroutines on your own (as decided by the scheduler attached).

you can find more details in the project ROADMAP.md[2]

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/352c8835e7609ad72872b5a63b...

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• v

  219 35,272 9.9 V

  Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

  

Goroutines was the selling point for me until they decided to introduce telemetry in their toolchain; that was what forced me to stop using Golang as a whole.

About GC, I would say: if you implement C++'s RAII mechanism to replace garbage collection, then I believe this project will have a bright future.

My final question is the following: how `pcz` compares to V language, from a syntax's perspective [1]?

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v

• TinyGo

  95 14,479 9.3 Go

  Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

  

Reminds me of https://tinygo.org/ - a project that brings Golang to embedded devices, browser (wasm) contexts. Do you converge or diverge from that project?

• alt-std

  1 3 10.0 Rust

  Alternative Standard Library for rust: Keep It Simple Stupid

There are a number of languages where there's been an alternative standard library developed, the problem is 'by stdlib do you mean standard-for-the-language or standard-for-you-to-code-against.'

But there was e.g. https://github.com/eloraiby/alt-std for rust, and for D there's a couple listed here - https://wiki.dlang.org/Alternative_Standard_Libraries

So if you're coming at it thinking in those terms, it's 'obviously' the right term to use to describe it.

Note that (a) I wasn't confused at all (b) it makes complete sense people -are- confused by it, and you're not at all wrong.

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