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That's interesting, didn't know that! Thanks for sharing. I don't think there is anything that is more "true" than something else, it's just varying degree of personal productivity and in the end we all work very differently, so one size does not fit all. I'm glad you're sharing your thoughts with me and seems to be similar to the REPL environment I'm running myself.

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I looked into this subject a bit more deeply in regards to Go, and you are right. Go doesn't have a REPL built in, and most of the implemented REPLs only work off of stdin. So, the Clojure style of REPL development is not as straight-forward in Go. However, it does seem like one of the userland REPLs could be adapted to work with an editor (like vscode) if the input source wasn't locked to stdin.

It seems like a ripe target for an opensource library to accomplish this. I may explore this later on when I have more time to devote.

Indeed, I'm going to think about some of the suggestions you mentioned the next time I'm in there playing with it. Perhaps I'll hit a wall with delve that other language tools (like Clojure) handle better.

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