It's not that you don't need a repl. It's that you don't really get the many benefits other repl-heavy languages have, like Smalltalk and the many different lis

It's not that you don't need a repl. It's that you don't really get the many benefits other repl-heavy languages have, like Smalltalk and the many different lisps. You got a lot of implicit state and other non-ergonimic constructs in the language that doesn't lend itself to live in a repl for development. Also I expanded a bit more on why Golang doesn't fit for repls in general here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053343