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I used a REPL in Java right around when they did the name change to J2SE, so that must have been 20 years ago? By the OPs definition it was still 10 years too late though so there is that.

Do you remember the name?

I know Java since the early releases and the only thing that comes to mind is Beanshell, which was around that time.

It was some third party thing I found on FTP servers at the time. It might have been Beanshell but I can't really recall.

Ah ok, thanks for the info.

I wrote this one a while ago - https://github.com/argonium/jsnip. May be helpful.

Although there's no REPL provided with Go, I've found that gore (https://github.com/motemen/gore) works pretty well. It feels similar to the old Java REPLs you'd find hidden in Intellij or other Java IDEs -- sometimes you can see the seams in its facade.

Interesting, thanks for pointing it out.

>It's 2017, where are the REPLs for Go and Rust?

Nobody's gonna make a REPL for languages nobody uses :^)

/s