Re: [jdee-devel] Did anyone try the jdk 9 repl?

[Paul L. <la...@ma...>]

I'm thinking of some kind of straight forward REPL type functionality as a separate module if someone really wants it.  Not anything that would tie too much into the guts of JDEE.


On Feb 12, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Phillip Lord <phi...@ru...> wrote:

> Paul Landes <la...@ma...> writes:
> 
>> I'm in favor of moving forward with the Clojure back end. Clojure tooling
>> makes the Emacs side of things much easier as Phil mentioned earlier.
>> 
>> I _do_ think it would be possible really to support both the Java REPL and
>> Clojure, however, it wouldn't make sense to duplicate core JDEE IDE type
>> functionality like method/class completion, wizards, etc.
> 
> 
> With the amount of developer time that we have, I think this is
> impractical. It's going to mean having data in two different places,
> getting two classpaths correct and it also missed one the main
> advantages -- that maintaining all of this information is shunted
> largely to the JVM.
> 
> 
> Phil