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		pcwalton on Nov 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four years of Go > It's difficult for statically-typed languages to provide one. No, it's not. As long as you have a way to polymorphically print a return value, which there are ways around (in Go, with reflection; in Haskell, with typeclasses; in Java, with Object's toString), there is nothing semantically difficult about a REPL for statically typed languages. > there's no dynamic typing Yes, there is, through `interface{}`.

JulianMorrison on Nov 11, 2013 [–]

The main thing stopping Go having a REPL (when there are ones for C, for example) is that Go can't yet compile to, or load, dynamic libraries. This stops each bit of REPL being compiled up and executed, which would otherwise be simple.

pjmlp on Nov 11, 2013 | [–]

And most likely never will, given the Go's team stance on dynamic linking.

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