diff --git a/src/backend/vm.nim b/src/backend/vm.nim
index 9f07ef5..531668c 100644
--- a/src/backend/vm.nim
+++ b/src/backend/vm.nim
@@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ proc dispatch*(self: PeonVM) =
                     discard self.pop()
                     continue
                 echo self.pop()
+            of GenericPrint:
+                echo self.pop()
             of PopN:
                 # Pops N elements off the call stack
                 for _ in 0..<int(self.readShort()):
diff --git a/src/frontend/compiler.nim b/src/frontend/compiler.nim
index 55c9041..df8a6da 100644
--- a/src/frontend/compiler.nim
+++ b/src/frontend/compiler.nim
@@ -896,6 +896,8 @@ proc handleBuiltinFunction(self: Compiler, fn: Name, args: seq[Expression]) =
         elif len(args) == 1:
             self.expression(args[0])
     case fn.valueType.builtinOp:
+        of "GenericPrint":
+            self.emitByte(GenericPrint)
         of "AddInt64":
             self.emitByte(AddInt64)
         of "SubInt64":
diff --git a/src/frontend/meta/bytecode.nim b/src/frontend/meta/bytecode.nim
index 6e8f2af..b12d2e5 100644
--- a/src/frontend/meta/bytecode.nim
+++ b/src/frontend/meta/bytecode.nim
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ type
         LoadNan,
         LoadInf,
         ## Operations on primitive types
+        GenericPrint,
         NegInt64,  # No unsigned variants (how would you negate something that has no sign?)
         NegInt32,
         NegInt16,
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ const simpleInstructions* = {Return, LoadNil,
                              SubFloat64, DivFloat64, MulFloat64,
                              AddFloat32, SubFloat32, DivFloat32,
                              MulFloat32, NegFloat32, NegFloat64,
-                             LessThanInt64, SysClock64
+                             LessThanInt64, SysClock64, GenericPrint,
                            }
 
 # Constant instructions are instructions that operate on the bytecode constant table
diff --git a/src/main.nim b/src/main.nim
index 39f3a23..e23a6a5 100644
--- a/src/main.nim
+++ b/src/main.nim
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ proc runFile(f: string, interactive: bool = false, fromString: bool = false) =
         serialized: Serialized
         tokenizer = newLexer()
         parser = newParser()
-        compiler = newCompiler(replMode=true)
+        compiler = newCompiler()
         debugger {.used.} = newDebugger()
         serializer = newSerializer()
         vm = newPeonVM()