REPLs are great.
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It's true, REPLs are great!
brson
on 2 Nov 2011
See also https://github.com/killerswan/rustx
kud1ing
on 24 Jan 2012
See also https://github.com/bleibig/rust-repl
bstrie
on 7 Feb 2012
REPLs are indespensible. CL sucks, but I'd almost rather use it than a better language without a good REPL.
mcandre
on 7 Feb 2012
Until bleibig's REPL is stable, feel free to use my stable-ish REPL-ish sort of thing: https://github.com/bstrie/rust-rustic
(But this is by no means a long-term solution.)
bstrie
on 13 Feb 2012
great. longer term I concur we should fold something like bleibig's repl into rustc. an --interactive flag would be great.
graydon
on 13 Feb 2012
--interactive would be helpful.
Suggestion: When argc < 1, default to interactive like scripting languages do.
mcandre
on 13 Feb 2012
Somewhat along the same lines as bstrie's rustic, here is a repl that I wrote. The main difference is that it behaves somewhat like a future repl based on LLVM's interpreter probably should behave (ie, statement by statement evaluation, local definitions, imports, etc), but under the hood it is a hack - it is writing out temp files and using rustc to compile them. either way, it is really fun to use, and works right now!
dbp
on 21 Aug 2012
This exists now (rusti) but is not working too well right now: #4407
catamorphism
on 24 Jan 2013
Is the scope of this issue "create a REPL" fulfilled?
kud1ing
on 12 Feb 2013
@kud1ing probably. Separate issues can be opened to address the current REPL breakage.
bstrie
on 12 Feb 2013
Closing.
brson
on 12 Feb 2013
Should this be reopened since rusti was removed? #9818
rampion
on 10 Jan 2014
9898
thestinger
on 10 Jan 2014
Yes please!! I often just want to play with a function or two and see how things work.
shaleh
on 10 Jul 2014
@shaleh are you aware of this: http://play.rust-lang.org/ ?
It has the advantage over a local repl that it is really trivial to share your example with other people once you're done hacking (see the "share" button at the bottom).
pnkfelix
on 11 Jul 2014
On Jul 10, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Felix S Klock II wrote:
@shaleh are you aware of this: http://play.rust-lang.org/ ?
It has the advantage over a local repl that it is really trivial to share your example with other people once you're done hacking (see the "share" button at the bottom).
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Yeah that's nice as long as you only hack where there is networking. Not all of my house gets decent WIFI much less trains, cars, etc.
If it can work as an online toy then surely we can get a real version at the shell.
shaleh
on 11 Jul 2014
Can this be reopened? I often don't want to share or save the stuff I do in a REPL, so I'd prefer a command line utility.
gsingh93
on 14 Jul 2014
Oh, I didn't see #9898. I guess dicussion can continue there, but I'd like to see something like rusti for the command line soon, even if it isn't a "proper" REPL. That thread seems to be talking about the proper way to do it, which may take some time to implement.
gsingh93
on 14 Jul 2014
Someone said something about cling, just to bring it up here. I think it's an awesome project to be based on.
jansegre
on 29 Aug 2014
Instant feedback is extremely gratifying. Even Java is going to have a repl in the next major release.
kindlychung
on 26 Oct 2015
What would be the actual work on this? (even if external?) because rusti was removed as I see from #9818
tyoc213
on 25 Jan 2016
rusti lives on here https://github.com/murarth/rusti
mitaa
on 25 Jan 2016
FYI: Julia language has a REPL, and looking at: https://github.com/iamed2/Rust.jl
it seems you can include Rust code in your files, just as you can C++ with Cxx.jl, or at the REPL, using either language interactively (while Cxx is more slick). [Already it was pretty simple to call Rust, no more difficult than C. If I ever need a non-GC language, I've been thinking Rust would be the preferred complementary language over C.]
Just looking at the code I see AST.jl, not sure you can generate Rust code from Julia (I recall having been told that, maybe a misunderstanding).
Note: https://github.com/iamed2/Rust.jl/blob/master/deps/deps.jl
PallHaraldsson
on 24 Aug 2016
Should this issue be repopened? rusti hasn't seen much love recently and depends on a very old version of the compiler. Would anyone else like to see a REPL?
xfbs
on 20 Apr 2018
chkno
on 20 Apr 2018
evcxr is currently the best REPL implementation
joshlk
on 10 May 2020
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Should this issue be repopened?
rustihasn't seen much love recently and depends on a very old version of the compiler. Would anyone else like to see a REPL?