A good REPL solution

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  • rlwrap

    A readline wrapper

  • Otherwise I use rlwrap, which is a general purpose readline wrapper: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap It's pretty basic stuff, but makes basic line editing less painful, & adds history support.

  • luax

    luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4, augmented with some useful packages. It is also a "compiler" that produces standalone executables from Lua scripts.

  • LuaX (https://github.com/CDSoft/luax). “luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4.4, augmented with some useful packages. luax can also produces standalone executables from Lua scripts.”

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  • luaprompt

    An embeddable Lua command prompt as well as a stand-alone interpreter with pretty-printing and autocompletion.

  • luaprompt (https://github.com/dpapavas/luaprompt). ”An embeddable Lua command prompt as well as a stand-alone interpreter with pretty-printing and autocompletion.”

  • ilua

    Portable Lua kernel for Jupyter

  • ILua (https://github.com/guysv/ilua). “ILua is a feature-packed, portable console and Jupyter kernel for the Lua language.”

  • ilua

    Interactive Lua (by ilua)

  • ILUA (https://github.com/ilua/ilua). “ILUA provides an extended interactive prompt that offers more features than the standard Lua interactive mode. It is implemented in pure Lua.”

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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