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fzyzcjy / dart_interactive

REPL (interactive shell) for Dart, supporting 3rd party packages, hot reload, and full grammar
https://github.com/fzyzcjy/dart_interactive
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Does dart interactive work in the browser? #80

Closed jlewi closed 1 year ago

jlewi commented 1 year ago

Does dart interactive work in the browser? My naive understanding is that dart_interactive relies on the Dart VM. IUC on the web Dart compiles to JS and doesn't rely on the Dart VM docs. Is there any path to creating a dart REPL on the web?

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fzyzcjy commented 1 year ago

Yes I think so.

As for web, I guess it may be hard. For example, even flutter does not support hot reload on web https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/53041 . Maybe we can wait for that issue, and if that is supported maybe we have enough infra to implement it?

jlewi commented 1 year ago

@fzyzcjy Could you explain how you think this might work on the web? I think for this discussion we can ignore flutter. IUC dart on mobile/desktop relies on JIT and a VM which allows for a REPL. However, on web I believe dart is compiled to JS and then executed. Is there someway to run the dart VM on web?

fzyzcjy commented 1 year ago

@jlewi I have not heard of any. I am not sure, maybe we need to wait for new Dart features if possible?

fzyzcjy commented 1 year ago

The reason why I say wait for flutter is that, if flutter does that successfully, then it may mean that Dart supports vm on web, or dart provides a new infra, etc, then we can utilize it.

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