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0 pointspjmlp13y ago0 comments

> ... the day a Go REPL will be possible is approaching.

A REPL is possible even today.

All is needed is an interpreter for the language and there are a few already available.

Nothing new, this is the same approach taken by many languages, provide an interactive environment for the REPL and a compiler for distribution.

Being done since the early days of computing.

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TazeTSchnitzel13y ago· 1 in thread

Or an incremental compiler.

pjmlpOP13y ago

For a REPL workflow it usually does not work, because most developers are trying out pieces of the application.

When I work with ML or Lisp based languages, I am always copied code snippets, which might land in separate modules afterwards.

Unless you mean a JIT at the REPL environment.

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