x-motemen/gore

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5511 stars · 152 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

gore is a Go REPL (read-eval-print loop) that supports line editing, multi-line input, code completion via gopls, and auto-importing of packages. It evaluates Go expressions, statements, and function declarations interactively by running code with `go run`.

Use cases

• experiment with Go code interactively
• test Go expressions without writing a full program
• learn Go syntax in a REPL
• quickly check the type of a Go expression
• prototype Go functions before adding them to a project
• look up Go package documentation from the terminal

When to choose

• you want an interactive Go playground in your terminal with line editing and completion
• you need to quickly evaluate Go snippets without creating a module and main function
• you want REPL commands like :doc, :type, and :write to export your session as source

When to avoid

• you need fast, stateful evaluation - gore re-runs all input with `go run` each line, so it is slow and cannot preserve side effects like time.Now()
• you need a standalone binary - gore requires the Go toolchain at runtime
• you want a graphical IDE-style playground rather than a terminal tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools interpreter developer-tools programming-languages cli go cross-platform go-repl read-eval-print-loop interactive-shell code-completion line-editing command-line docker

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