gomacro: An Interactive Go Interpreter with Generics and Macro Support
Go is a compiled language, which means it has traditionally lacked a native REPL for quick experimentation. gomacro fills that gap by implementing an interpreter for Go, written in Go itself, that runs both as an interactive shell and as a script executor. According to its project page on GitHub, it now also supports Go generics and a macro system, features not found in the standard toolchain. What gomacro Does gomacro (hosted at cosmos72/gomacro on GitHub) describes itself as a nearly complete Go interpreter. It lets developers type Go code line by line into a REPL and see results immediately, without compiling a binary first. It can also execute existing `.go` script files directly. This matters because Go's design philosophy has always favored compiled, statically-typed execution over dynamic scripting. Tools that bring REPL-style interactivity to Go have existed before (such as `yaegi`), but gomacro distinguishes itself by explicitly supporting generics, introduced in Go 1...