Golike

Golike is a fictional programming language and software project used here as a case study in language design. It is a statically typed, compiled language intended for high-performance, scalable server applications and tooling. The design draws from Go in terms of readable syntax and lightweight concurrency, and from Rust in offering strong safety guarantees and predictable performance.

History: Development began in the early 2010s by the fictional Golike Foundation to explore alternatives to established systems languages. The first public release provided a minimal toolchain and standard library, followed by subsequent stable releases that added an ownership model and improved interop with C.

Features: Similar syntax to Go, with a package system and simple formatting. Concurrency is modeled with goroutine-like lightweight tasks and channels, offering flat concurrency without heavy runtimes. Golike adds an optional ownership and borrowing model to improve memory safety without a mandatory GC, as well as a cross-language FFI interface for C and other languages. It ships with a standard library, a static analyzer, a test runner, and a formatter. The compiler emphasizes fast compile times and predictable optimizations.

Usage and reception: In this fictional context, Golike is used in educational settings and toy projects to illustrate language design tradeoffs. It has a small but active community of contributors and readers.

See also: Go, Rust, D, Nim.