I was at Gophercon last week, and the last day, Saturday, was a hack day where people all sat down and just worked on projects, largely in Go. I decided on a whim to play with doing runtime code generation in Go. I’ve done some toy JIT work before in C and C++, so I’m pretty familiar with the space, and it seemed like something fun I hadn’t heard anyone playing with in Go. After a few days of hacking, I produced some working code, complete with a PoC brainfuck JIT, entirely written in G...
