The latest articles on DEV Community by Sunder (@sunder_6dae40eeaceaaf7f76). https://dev.to/sunder_6dae40eeaceaaf7f76 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4238284%2Fc747e5ec-cafb-4193-8ad1-99e459fd8006.jpg https://dev.to/sunder_6dae40eeaceaaf7f76 en Sunder Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:41:02 +0000 https://dev.to/sunder_6dae40eeaceaaf7f76/introducing-go-500g https://dev.to/sunder_6dae40eeaceaaf7f76/introducing-go-500g <p>My dear fellow developers,</p> <p>I’d like to take a moment of your time to announce that I’ve been working on an experimental project called Go++, a superset of Go that compiles to plain Go; the project is still in early stages and definitely not ready for production use but I was hoping to get some early feedback from the community that could help steer it in the right direction.</p> <p>I love Go and its simplicity, but many a time I’ve wished it allowed me to express my intent a little more succinctly and Go++ is an attempt towards exactly that but while remaining firmly grounded to the Go runtime and its awesome and mature standard library and the ecosystem.</p> <p>In a nutshell, Go++ currently offers things like:</p> <ul> <li>Classes and polymorphism</li> <li>Generics</li> <li>Multiple inheritance</li> <li>Function and method overloading</li> <li>Named and default arguments</li> <li>Enums and structural records</li> <li>Extension methods</li> <li>String interpolation</li> <li>Safe nil walking and fallbacks</li> <li>Exceptions</li> <li>Annotations and introspection</li> <li>and more!</li> </ul> <p>One important project constraint driving the compiler has been to compile a Go project without any modifications thus letting developers incrementally adopt Go++ features as they see fit for the problem at hand. </p> <p>The project has grown beyond the compiler itself and now includes a CLI, formatter, language server/VS Code extension, testing, and some opinionated built-in packages for HTTP routing, serialization, ORM and more.</p> <p>Go developers can quickly try it with:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>go install github.com/telgatech/gpp@main gpp init hello <span class="nb">cd</span> hello gpp run </code></pre> </div> <p>Detailed documentation including getting started guide and sources available at: <br> <a href="https://gpp.telga.in/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gpp.telga.in/</a><br> <a href="https://gpp.telga.in/guide/getting-started" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gpp.telga.in/guide/getting-started</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/telgatech/gpp" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/telgatech/gpp</a></p> <p>I’d love feedback from Go developers who are willing to give it a spin—particularly around the language design, Go interoperability, tooling, rough edges, and anything that feels surprising or inconsistent.</p> <p>If you try it, let me know what works, what breaks, and what you’d like to see next.</p> go programming opensource