🧠Introduction To Gauntlet

💡What is Gauntlet?💡

Gauntlet is a programming language made to tackle Golang’s most frustrating design choices. It transpiles exclusively to Go, fully supports all of its features, and integrates seamlessly with its entire ecosystem — without the need for bindings.

👊What Go Issues does Gauntlet Fix?👊

• Annoying "unused variable" error

• Verbose error handling (if err ≠ nil everywhere in your code)

• Annoying way to import and export (e.g. capitalizing letters to export)

• Lack of ternary operator

• Lack of expressional switch-case construct

• Complicated for-loops

• Weird assignment operator (whose idea was it to use :=)

• No way to fluently pipe functions

⚡Language Features⚡

• Transpiles to maintainable, easy-to-read Golang

• Interoperates with entire Go ecosystem. No bindings required.

• Consistent and familiar syntax

• Near-instant conversion to Go

• Easy install with a singular self-contained executable

• Beautiful syntax highlighting on Visual Studio Code

• Shares exact conventions/idioms with Golang. Virtually no learning curve.

📈 Status of Gauntlet 📈

Gauntlet is in the alpha phase - meaning it has just been released without thorough testing. As such, it will inevitably contain bugs. If you run into one, please open an issue on the GitHub page.

🤔Why is it called "Gauntlet"?🤔

Because I snapped Go's issues out of existence