name: Language Change Proposals
description: Changes to the language
labels: ["Proposal", "LanguageChange", "LanguageChangeReview"]
title: "proposal: spec: proposal title"


body:
  - type: markdown
    attributes:
      value: |
       ## Our process for evaluating language changes can be found [here](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master#language-changes)

  - 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

  - 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

  - 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"

  - 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

       If yes, 
        1. Mention the related proposals 
        2. then describe how this proposal differs       
    validations:
      required: true

  - 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

       If yes, 
        1.how does this differ from previous error handling proposals?

    validations:
      required: true

  - 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

       If yes, 
        1. how does this relate to the accepted design and other generics proposals?

    validations:
      required: true

  - 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

  - type: textarea
    id: language-spec-changes
    attributes:
      label: "Language Spec Changes"
      description: "What would change in the language spec?"
    validations:
      required: false

  - 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

  - 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

       If yes, 
        1. Show example code before and after the change.

    validations:
      required: true

  - 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

  - type: textarea
    id: learning-curve
    attributes:
      label: "Would this change make Go easier or harder to learn, and why?"

  - type: textarea
    id: cost-description
    attributes:
      label: "Cost Description"
      description: "What is the cost of this proposal? (Every language change has a cost)"

  - 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

  - 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

  - type: textarea
    id: prototype
    attributes:
      label: "Prototype"
      description: "Can you describe a possible implementation?"
    validations:
      required: false