Does Go provide REPL?

Question

The interactive environment is VERY helpful for a programmer. However, it seems Go does not provide it. Is my understanding correct?

Answer 1

I've had some luck with the VSCode debugger, but it's fairly limited in so far as you cannot invoke function calls from the debug console Debug: Function Calls not supported #2225.

Basically you set a breakpoint after properly configuring your launch.json file. Then you can drill down on the left in the variables side bar and enter variable expressions an the debug console.