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by nanodano 3154 days ago
You can already "go run program.go" from anywhere, even outside of a project structure, which is the same result as running an interpreted script.

It's a novel idea but I don't really see it taking off. Is there really that much benefit to having a shebang at the top of the file versus executing "go run" and is it really worth having a REPL for a fairly verbose language? I certainly don't see myself wishing for a Java REPL, and I don't particular see myself reaching for a Go REPL either.
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crawshaw 3154 days ago
The goal is to add other features that are also useful for scripting. The big one I've worked on so far is syntax for the os/exec package: https://github.com/neugram/ng/blob/master/docs/shell.md#a-sh...

Another thing I'm interested in is operator overloading, for compact/pleasant matrix/table types.

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dgacmu 3153 days ago
Y'know, if you happened to accidentally create nice bindings for using TensorFlow in the process... :)
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