[overcyn]

Well if they got the Go runtime on WASM, you could run it in a interpreter and do live reloading. Keeping state across reloads would be challenging, but I don't think it would be an impossible feat.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892

[jerf]

Saving and reloading object state across code changes is one of those things that if you don't build it in to the language from day one, it's really hard to add it in later. I wouldn't expect Go to get it anytime soon.

Even if you do manage to hack it in to something that wasn't designed with it in mind, it's always hacky, quirky, and unreliable, and you never quite know whether you're looking at a bug in your own code or in the state management hackery.

It isn't impossible. You are technically correct. But it's certainly taking impossible out for drinks, followed by long strolls on the beach, and a lot of meaningful staring.