| name: Language Change Proposals |
| description: Changes to the language |
| labels: ["Proposal", "v2", "LanguageChange"] |
| title: "proposal: Go 2: proposal title" |
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| body: |
| - type: markdown |
| attributes: |
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| ## Our process for evaluating language changes can be found [here](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master#language-changes) |
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| - type: dropdown |
| id: author-go-experience |
| attributes: |
| label: "Go Programming Experience" |
| description: "Would you consider yourself a novice, intermediate, or experienced Go programmer?" |
| options: |
| - "Novice" |
| - "Intermediate" |
| - "Experienced" |
| default: 1 |
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| - type: input |
| id: author-other-languages-experience |
| attributes: |
| label: "Other Languages Experience" |
| description: "What other languages do you have experience with?" |
| placeholder: "Go, Python, JS, Rust" |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: checkboxes |
| id: related-idea |
| attributes: |
| label: "Related Idea" |
| options: |
| - label: "Has this idea, or one like it, been proposed before?" |
| - label: "Does this affect error handling?" |
| - label: "Is this about generics?" |
| - label: "Is this change backward compatible? Breaking the Go 1 compatibility guarantee is a large cost and requires a large benefit" |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: related-proposals |
| attributes: |
| label: Has this idea, or one like it, been proposed before? |
| description: If so, how does this proposal differ? |
| placeholder: | |
| Yes or No |
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| If yes, |
| 1. Mention the related proposals |
| 2. then describe how this proposal differs |
| validations: |
| required: true |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: error-handling-proposal |
| attributes: |
| label: Does this affect error handling? |
| description: If so, how does this differ from previous error handling proposals? |
| placeholder: | |
| Yes or No |
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| If yes, |
| 1.how does this differ from previous error handling proposals? |
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| validations: |
| required: true |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: generics-proposal |
| attributes: |
| label: Is this about generics? |
| description: If so, how does this relate to the accepted design and other generics proposals? |
| placeholder: | |
| Yes or No |
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| If yes, |
| 1. how does this relate to the accepted design and other generics proposals? |
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| validations: |
| required: true |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: proposal |
| attributes: |
| label: "Proposal" |
| description: "What is the proposed change? Who does this proposal help, and why? Please describe as precisely as possible the change to the language." |
| validations: |
| required: true |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: language-spec-changes |
| attributes: |
| label: "Language Spec Changes" |
| description: "What would change in the language spec?" |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: informal-change |
| attributes: |
| label: "Informal Change" |
| description: "Please also describe the change informally, as in a class teaching Go." |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: go-backwards-compatiblity |
| attributes: |
| label: Is this change backward compatible? |
| description: Breaking the Go 1 compatibility guarantee is a large cost and requires a large benefit. |
| placeholder: | |
| Yes or No |
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| If yes, |
| 1. Show example code before and after the change. |
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| validations: |
| required: true |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: orthogonality |
| attributes: |
| label: "Orthogonality: How does this change interact or overlap with existing features?" |
| description: "Is the goal of this change a performance improvement? If so, what quantifiable improvement should we expect? How would we measure it?" |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: learning-curve |
| attributes: |
| label: "Would this change make Go easier or harder to learn, and why?" |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: cost-description |
| attributes: |
| label: "Cost Description" |
| description: "What is the cost of this proposal? (Every language change has a cost)" |
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| - type: input |
| id: go-toolchain |
| attributes: |
| label: Changes to Go ToolChain |
| description: "How many tools (such as vet, gopls, gofmt, goimports, etc.) would be affected? " |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: input |
| id: perf-costs |
| attributes: |
| label: Performance Costs |
| description: "What is the compile time cost? What is the run time cost? " |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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| - type: textarea |
| id: prototype |
| attributes: |
| label: "Prototype" |
| description: "Can you describe a possible implementation?" |
| validations: |
| required: false |
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