CLclktmr·Dec 30, 2025
There is also yaegi, a Go interpreter, which might be a better choice for small scripts than 'go run'.
https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
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24 sourcesI like yaegi [1] for go because it is an interpreter for the go language (almost fully supported, generics need some love). The most important part for me is being able to keep all my language tooling when switching between interpreted/compiled code. Also, there is little needed distinction between what is going to be interpreted and compiled. Once you start including libraries it gets dicey and the need for including the libraries in the compiled part is necessary. There is also a blog post that comes along with it describing how it was built! [2]
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
[2] https://marc.vertes.org/yaegi-internals/
In Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rustpairing this with yaegi [1] would be interesting. You could having a REPL open doing os operations and when you get the data looking like you want, you select which lines to save to a file.
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
In Shell-ish scripting in Go with easeI love this! I have been working on something similar recently [1] and it is exciting to think about the possibility of building full stack components for the web that are not going to break in the foreseeable future. Even if I need to swap languages/frameworks go is easy to parse and transpile!
I dream of a library like ours to take on the likes of React, and to get there the devex needs to have some key features. Most notably, imo, is live reload. You could use air, but I find it still to be too slow to recompile the entire app. I have had some success so far with yaegi to interpret the go at runtime [2]. It isn't perfect, but the full language spec is implemented.
My personal goal is to build the Go equivalent of rails/django. Live reloading is needed in addition to plugins that provide web app primitives (auth, storage, logging, metri
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cs, etc). Additionally, I think the network effect of React is a powerful value driver, so some easy way to include React in an app is also important. Thankfully evanw has made this trivial with esbuild [3]
[1] https://github.com/breadchris/share/blob/master/html2/html.g...
[2] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
[3] https://github.com/breadchris/share/blob/master/graph/build....
Take a look at yaegi, it already can be used and embedded as a REPL and shell. [1]
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
In Ask HN: Writing a Shell in Go, AdviceMaybe [Yaegi](https://github.com/traefik/yaegi)?
In Golang Interpreter Written in PHPTraefik/Yaegi: Yaegi Is Another Elegant Go Interpreter
2 points · Open discussionYes. There are long standing feature requests for (e.g.) the reflect package that simply don't get done because they'd break this assumption and/or force further indirection in hot paths to support "no code generation at runtime, ever".
Packages like Yaegi (that offers an interpreted Go REPL) have "know limitations, won't be addressed" also because of these assumptions.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4146
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16522
https://github.com/traefik/yaegi?tab=readme-ov-file#limitati...
In Go: What we got right, what we got wrongAlready somewhat existing with yaegi [1]
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
In Fourteen Years of GoHave you considered just using go?
https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
In Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in GoThere is always https://github.com/traefik/yaegi - a Go interpreter written to make it easy to write plugins.
In Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of JekyllYaegi v0.14.0 Go interpreter is out, with support of generics
2 points · Open discussionYaegi has a cli and repl [1].
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi#as-a-command-line-interpret...
In Umka: A statically typed embeddable scripting languageThis is great as a research project, but if I needed something like this to be embedded in an existing project, I'd just go with Yaegi [1] instead of going with something that is similar to golang, but not. Having all the golang ecosystem and tooling is a huge advantage as well.
[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
In Umka: A statically typed embeddable scripting languageIf you already have Go libraries compiling to wasm working then you could just embed a Go interpreter like yaegi [0].
[0] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
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