CSharpRepl VS clojerl

The C# REPL I'm talking about is simply called... C# REPL. It's an open-source project created by Will Fuqua, and as of today, it has over 2k GitHub stars. It is distributed as a .NET tool and is cross-platform. In this blog post, I'm going to show you how to install it on Windows Terminal, but you can install it on any terminal emulator you prefer.

> The repl driven workflow is amazing and the lisp images are rock solid and highly performant.

do people not realize that basically everything vm/interpreted language has a repl these days?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/java-repl-j...

https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

https://pub.dev/packages/interactive

not to mention ruby, python, php, lua

hell even c++ has a janky repl https://github.com/root-project/cling

Let me introduce you to my lord and savior https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

Not the answer you’re looking for, but I haven’t been able to run LinqPad since I moved to Mac OS. Polyglot notebooks plug-in for VS Code comes very close to LinqPad, or if you don’t mind Terminal/CommandLine csharprepl is amazing.

For REPLs, there are options like (my own) https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl which stand on top of the Roslyn compiler infrastructure, which is quite extensive and can easily evaluate standalone functions and statements.

It's still nowhere close to the REPLs of lisp and smalltalk, but it's a step in a more flexible direction.

Basically, you take a programming language and make it work on a platform that meant to be programmed using a different PL. Clojure is hosted by design - it's not Java, but can be used to program for JVM. It ain't Javascript, but can be used to target nodejs and browser; not an [official] CLR language, but you can write .Net programs. You can use Clojure to make Flutter apps with ClojureDart. You can integrate Python into Clojure with libpython-clj. Or write Clojure to target Erlang/OTP; or Rust; or R; There's even a clojure-like language for Lua - Fennel.

There's something about Clojure people like so much, they want it to work atop any platform.

https://github.com/Tensegritics/ClojureDart

https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj

https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl

https://github.com/clojure-rs/ClojureRS

https://github.com/scicloj/clojisr

https://fennel-lang.org

But there are also unofficial implementations—i.e. not JVM, JS, .NET—of Clojure for other host environments, e.g. Clojerl. And of course nearly everything /u/borkdude touches interops with something in some way.

Tail call optimization/elimination isn't a property of functional languages - there are tons of non-functional languages with it, like Lua or even C, when compiled with -O3, to name a few. Besides, Clojure is a hosted language, so it shares the platform characteristics, and recur is a language-way of providing a construct for tail call looping. Clojure on BEAM for example, supports tail call elimination, because BEAM does. And Beam is a quite functional environment ;)

Clojerl: an implementation for the Erlang VM. The reader conditional is :clje.

There's also an unofficial BEAM VM implementation