Does Kotlin have anything currently or in the work...

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[Nick Halase]

Does Kotlin have anything currently or in the works along the lines of GroovyShell?

[Mark Murphy]

Do you mean running Kotlin scripts from the command line? If so, .kts files, run via kotlinc -script, offer that.

If you mean "be able to run Kotlin scripts from within your program", Kotlin/JVM supports the JSR-223 APIs, both to run scripts and to have Kotlin itself run as a script. See https://kotlinexpertise.com/run-kotlin-scripts-from-kotlin-programs/ for some material on this.

And, if neither of those are what you meant... could you explain a bit more about what you need? 😅

[jw]

Running kotlinc will also dump you into a jshell-like interactive session

[Nick Halase]

The JSR-223 bit is what I was looking for! Thanks, that's awesome news.

[Ruckus]

@Nick Halase In that case, check out #scripting

[Nick Halase]

Perfect. I didn't know that channel was a thing.

[cedric]

@Nick Halase Something like https://github.com/cbeust/kash maybe?