CSharpRepl

It should be able to! F# has "gradual typing" and full type inference which means you often do not need to specify the types at all, and it also happens to be whitespace-sensitive language much like Python is. Both of these aspects should make it feel quite familiar while also giving you full advantages of static typing. One thing to note is I find `dotnet fsi {some script name}.fsx` taking more time to start than ideal - up to 800ms is just too much, normal .NET applications usually start in a fraction of this. I recently posted a submission here for "FSharpPacker" written by my friend that lets you compile F# scripts to standalone applications (either runtime-dependent, self-contained or fully native binaries, much like Go), it also has some comments on getting the best mileage out of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304835 Pr

Adding packages is `dotnet add package {PackageName}`. That's it. Worrying about version compatibility for new projects has stopped being an issue. The package either targets NS2.0 or whatever latest LTS currently is, in which case you just add its reference, or it doesn't in which case you use something else. If it does, in 98% situations it just works. In the last 2% it has native dependencies which means either a) the package ships with binaries built for all popular platforms, b) the package adds a platform-specific dependent package automatically, or manually and mentions that in README (either with dotnet add package or system-wide library, apt-get install and friends), or c) the package comes with windows only native dll, which happens with ancient unmaintained packages, it's a rare case nowadays fortunately. As someone whose prima

Also https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl - if you want a conventional repl, also cross platform.

If you mean problems having to do with assigning "..."u8 UTF-8 string literals to variables, there's this workaround: https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl/issues/318#issuecomment-21...

The author has some comments on this on GitHub: https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl?tab=readme-ov-file#compari... Even though it's not as feature-rich as linqpad's Dump() method, personally I find the ability to pretty print any object ("detailed view"[1]) by pressing ctrl+enter really convenient. E.g. try typing in new Uri("https://news.ycombinator.com") (without semicolon), then pressing ctrl+enter. [1] https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl?tab=readme-ov-file#:~:text...

It is kind of like csharprepl[0] but more powerful for the scenarios it targets. However, since it only supports Windows it's a non-starter personally so I never used it much. [0] https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl

> 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 edit: i get downvoted by the lisp crowd every time i bring up that the repl isn't a differentiating feature anymore :shrug:

For what it's worth, modern C# can evaluate top-level statements with no other ceremony. The following is a valid standalone C# program: Console.WriteLine("Hello"); 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.