No, Go does not provide a REPL.

However, as already mentioned, Go Playground (this is the new URL) is very handy. The Go Authors are also thinking about adding a feature-rich editor to it.

If you want something local, consider installing hsandbox. Running it simply with hsandbox go will split your terminal screen (with screen ) where you can write code at the top and see its execution output at the bottom on every save.

There was a gotry among standard Go commands, which used to evaluate expressions (with an optional package name), and could be run like gotry 1+2 and gotry fmt 'Println("hello")' from shell. It is no longer available because not many people actually used it.

I have also seen third party projects for building a REPL for Go, but now I can only find links to two of them: igo and go-repl. How well do they work I don't know.

My two cents: Speed of compilation makes writing a REPL possible for Go, as it has also helped building the tools mentioned here, but the same speed makes REPL less necessary. Every time I want to test something in Go that I can't run in Playground I open a simple .go file and start coding and simply run the code. This will be even easier when the go command in Go 1 makes one-command build process possible and way easier.

UPDATE: Latest weekly release of Go added go command which can be used to very easily build a file: write your prog.go file and run go build prog.go && ./prog

UPDATE 2: With Go 1 you can directly run go programs with go run filename.go