Anyone else becoming more frustrated by the lack of a rust repl / shell ? I have a 20k+ LOC app that I'm currently doing a lot "deserialize; do some computation; serialize" work with. Currently the best thing I can do is to create a crate, then "abuse" the unit test / example framework to run rust …

I haven't tried evcxr but worth mentioning it.

I've used cargo-script (due to lack of maintenance, there appears to be a fork: cargo-eval ) and cargo-play for this sort of thing. Having mostly come from a C and C++ world, I wasn't really expecting a REPL. Of course, if someone managed to pull it off, I would be thrilled. :slight_smile: (see also…

I've used https://repl.it/ . It's not exactly a repl, but I learned a lot of Rust playing with it.

Yes, definitely! I've had great experiences with ruby and python, connecting to live environments, investigating live state and launching methods on live data manually. A good REPL is a great tool when things are hot, definitely not just a development/learning time toy.

Repl / shell rant

ehsanmok August 27, 2019, 10:27pm 4

For C++, I have experimented with cling. It's pretty good. For data science type of applications, one can install it with conda pretty smoothly xeus-cling.

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Repl / shell rant

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