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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by bscphil on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:50PM (#18710413)
It always surprises me when new languages don't make a REPL a top priority. It's such a crucial thing for a good developer experience. Rust still doesn't have one, as far as I know, and it's a major pain point for me as a light user of the language.
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by wwright on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:13PM (#18711844)
Rust expressions are very contextual due to things like the borrow checker, though, and a REPL basically means that every bound top level name has an infinite lifetime. That would make some things very awkward.
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Re:Reasons Python Sucks by juststeve on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @10:17PM (#18712734)
Rust has a REPL under development on github: https://github.com/murarth/rusti

Seems to be active up until around July-August

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