rules_py VS gore

At this point I would say no, but work is in progress to improve in this respect [1].

At my place of work we use some rules [2] to build virtual envs from Bazel dependencies. It's been a great stop-gap for us and allows us to use traditional Python tooling (e.g. PyCharm) with Bazel-managed dependences.

[1] https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_py

There are also Go interpreters with REPLs like https://github.com/x-motemen/gore

There are a few REPLs, but people don't use them much. I usually have an empty main.go file laying around where I put a snippet, then run it.

I only know of this one and an article on it. https://github.com/x-motemen/gore , http://diego-pacheco.blogspot.com/2018/07/writing-simple-repl-in-go.html

detail: https://github.com/go-rod/rod /issues/629 https://github.com/x-motemen/gore/issues/218

Most people use the playground as a sort of a poor man's REPL. I don't find it useful for that due to the reasons I pointed above (feedback latency). You don't have to use an IDE, there are many other tools available that fill that role outside the IDE like https://github.com/x-motemen/gore that I have also used in the past.

The only actual Go REPL I know is gore, https://github.com/x-motemen/gore, which, on all the machines I've tried, is brutally slow.

That's the one I'm aware of https://github.com/motemen/gore