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People use REPLs for more than "toying around and learning." They can be very useful both for exploratory programming (which is different from toying around in
by chc 13y ago
People use REPLs for more than "toying around and learning." They can be very useful both for exploratory programming (which is different from toying around in that you're actually trying to accomplish something) and debugging. It seems more likely to me that Go doesn't have a good REPL because Go just isn't very amenable to general-purpose REPLs, which is the same reason C REPLs tend to be more trouble than they're worth.
- mseepgood 13y ago> People use REPLs for more than "toying around and learning." In all those years of Scheme, Ruby, Python, Haskell, Scala I have never used REPLs for anything other than tutorials or trying out something quickly. > that Go doesn't have a good REPL What makes you think that the Go REPL is not a good REPL? Have you actually tried it? Probably not, because you do not care as much about REPLs as you think do.