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

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? 😅

Running

kotlinc

will also dump you into a

jshell

-like interactive session

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

@Nick Halase In that case, check out #scripting

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

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