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gala: Scala in Go
For engineers building on Go who want stronger type guarantees, GALA catches at compile time what Go only catches at runtime—incomplete pattern matches and data races across goroutine boundaries. The language interops with any Go package without declaration files, wrapping (T, error) returns into Try[T] automatically, so adoption doesn't require abandoning existing Go dependencies.
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GALA enforces compile-time data-race safety by requiring values crossing goroutine boundaries to be deeply immutable, including checking what closures capture.
Full Go third-party module interop works out of the box—return types are inferred from the Go SDK, and (T, error) pairs are automatically wrapped into Try[T].
IDE support includes a GoLand/IntelliJ plugin and an LSP server for VS Code and Neovim, with diagnostics, hover, go-to-definition, and completion across both GALA and Go types.
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