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		ok123456 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Mo... But we have the same 1970s REPLs in 2025; additionally, the web browser, how end-users consume most programs, is a giant REPL. For interpreted languages, most fancy IDEs provide a language interpreter shell, which is a REPL.

melvinroest 5 days ago [–]

Yea JS code inside the browser has a lot of REPL like functionalities, including a complete debugger to boot!

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