Alternatives

Products that do what SGo, a dialect of Go that avoids nil-related panics with optionals does

1FA
Fo: An experimental language which adds generics on top of Go▲165
2018 · github.com
2GF
G-Fu – a pragmatic Lisp embedded in Go▲123
2019 · github.com
3JE
jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go▲217
2020 · github.com
4AS
Arturo – Simple, expressive and portable programming language▲207
2021 · arturo-lang.io
5FF
Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript▲115
2013 · ajf.me
6MA
Muon, a low-level programming language inspired by C, C# and Go▲175
2019 · github.com
7GI
GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser▲129
2019 · gocode.io
8MA
Miso – A Haskell implementation of Elm▲114
2017 · github.com
9AU
A utility for running exhaustiveness checks on “sum types” in Go▲75
2017 · github.com
10EA
Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative▲102
eno [1] - A modern plaintext language w/ libraries [2] for JavaScript, Python, Ruby & soon more! We migrated a big relational research database to a file-based solution - requirements were: - Super fast and easy editability for users - Highest performance for parsing/validating >10K documents on every user change. Our trials with YAML/TOML showed us that we wanted something both faster [3][4] and easier [4], something tailored for file-based content management ... and after months of research & development it's now publicly available (under MIT license) for everyone! Last but…
2018
11LA
Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance▲42
Hi HN, I made Lingo - the SQLite of semantic search. I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. In this case it's AI that challenges the 'bigger is better' transformer paradigm. Lingo is the first piece of that research, a high-performance linguistic database designed to run on-device. The full technical overview and manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@robm.antunes/bcd1e9752af6 The paper has been archived on Zenodo with a DOI:…
Sep 2025
12BP
Bon – programming language designed for simplicity, performance, safety▲99
2019 · github.com
13SA
SAN – a Safe and Nice TOML/YAML Alternative▲45
2018 · astrocorp.net
14AL
A Lisp compiler and environment in Go▲76
2015 · github.com
15TA
Tru – An Esoteric Language with Brackets▲6
2021 · github.com
16FS
Flaggy – Super idiomatic subcommands for Go▲8
2018 · github.com
17AI
An Implementation of the Language from “Writing an Interpreter in Go”▲9
2018 · github.com
18NM
Neeilang: Minimalist OOP Language That Compiles to LLVM IR▲44
2020 · github.com
19AP
A programming language that uses only parentheses▲55
2012 · github.com
20BA
Brooce, a language-agnostic job queue written in Go▲6
2016 · github.com
21TL
Tengo lang – A fast script language for Go▲6
2019 · tengolang.com
22PA
Preql – a database query language that compiles to SQL▲38
2021 · github.com
23AC
A Command-Line Sentence Tokenizer Written in Golang▲6
2015 · github.com
24MF
Monads for Deno▲7
2020 · github.com

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