Coming from Go

Go

Resisted generics for years, added them in 1.18. go generate for code gen.

Tape

Never adding generics. @tape {} is built-in code generation — same language, runs at compile time, type-safe.

Go

Goroutines + channels. M:N scheduling. Lightweight, implicit.

Tape

Explicit thread declarations with typed events and on_done callbacks. No scheduler magic. You see every thread boundary.

Go

GC handles everything. Escape analysis decides heap vs stack. No manual free.

Tape

Manual memory in t0. In t1 the compiler frees strings and other owned values at scope exit, with no GC. t2 scripts allocate from an arena, with a simple GC for long-running ones.

Go

val, err := foo() then if err != nil. Verbose, easy to forget.

Tape

let val = foo() or return — one line. Compiler won't let you ignore the error.