google / shenzhen-go

Experimental visual Go environment

"SHENZHEN GO" (working title)

⚠️ WARNING: This repository is currently unmaintained, and the project is not being worked on.

SHENZHEN GO (working title) is an experimental visual Go environment, inspired by programming puzzle games such as TIS-100 and SHENZHEN I/O.

SHENZHEN GO provides a UI for editing a "graph," where the nodes are goroutines and the arrows are channel reads and writes. (This is analogous to multiple "microcontrollers" communicating electrically in a circuit.) It can also convert a graph into pure Go source code, which can be compiled and run, or used as a library in a regular Go program.

SHENZHEN GO was unveiled at the linux.conf.au 2017 Open Source & Games Miniconf.

Read more at https://google.github.io/shenzhen-go.

Getting started

See the getting-started guides at https://google.github.io/shenzhen-go.

...for the impatient gopher

Choose one of:

git clone https://github.com/google/shenzhen-go && cd shenzhen-go && go install
git clone https://github.com/google/shenzhen-go && cd shenzhen-go && go install -tags webview
go get -u github.com/google/shenzhen-go
go get -u -tags webview github.com/google/shenzhen-go

Notes

This is not an official Google product.

This is an experimental project - expect plenty of rough edges and bugs, and no support.

For discussions, there is a Google Group and a Slack channel.

Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't be nearly as good as it is without the following:

• The Ace code editor.
• Chrome Hterm.
• GopherJS.
• gRPC.
• Improbable's gRPC-Web for Go.
• Johan Brandhorst's GopherJS bindings for gRPC-Web.