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0 pointstaeric8y ago0 comments

Though, they are lacking the magic of a REPL in CL. Hotspot replacement in JVM languages is neat compared to the magic of redefinitions in CL.

And it seems nobody ever tries hooking a REPL up to a running system anymore.

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mhluongo8y ago

Some of us still do in Clojure land for run-time debugging, though skipping the crazy state mutation stuff I've seen in eg CL.

pjmlp8y ago

Java 9 is also bringing one.

taericOP8y ago

I'm curious what makes this superior to Beanshell. Or any other style of REPL that you could do on the JVM.

Not against the idea, per se, but it seems hardly new ground. And unlikely to be nearly as powerful as a REPL in CL. (Though, again, few things are. Not sure that any are, to be honest.)

pjmlp8y ago

Well, Beanshell is dead, last update was on 2005.

Then there is a big advantage on having it as standard tool, instead of something done by third parties.

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0 pointstaeric8y ago0 comments

Though, they are lacking the magic of a REPL in CL. Hotspot replacement in JVM languages is neat compared to the magic of redefinitions in CL.

And it seems nobody ever tries hooking a REPL up to a running system anymore.

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mhluongo8y ago

Some of us still do in Clojure land for run-time debugging, though skipping the crazy state mutation stuff I've seen in eg CL.

pjmlp8y ago

Java 9 is also bringing one.

taericOP8y ago

I'm curious what makes this superior to Beanshell. Or any other style of REPL that you could do on the JVM.

Not against the idea, per se, but it seems hardly new ground. And unlikely to be nearly as powerful as a REPL in CL. (Though, again, few things are. Not sure that any are, to be honest.)

pjmlp8y ago

Well, Beanshell is dead, last update was on 2005.

Then there is a big advantage on having it as standard tool, instead of something done by third parties.

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