Any lightweight Kotlin interpreter in the market?

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[pavi2410]

Any lightweight Kotlin interpreter in the market?

[josh]

Most Kotlin developers under 150 pounds should qualify. (just kidding!) 😉

[pavi2410]

Took time but I understood 😂

[josh]

My friend saw this and said "Kotlin interpreters are in short supply, so they must be slim pickings!" 😛

[pavi2410]

Jokes apart, I am looking for a Kotlin "Repl" 😂 like Beanshell.

[josh]

That's cool! I don't know of any that are distincly "lightweight" because I don't know how to measure that, but there is a way to do REPL here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/quick-run.html#repl

[pavi2410]

I want the Repl to be embeddable as a library

[pavi2410]

for Android

[josh]

Interesting! I don't know of any that can be embedded in Android (probably because of remote code execution concerns), but if you find one, let us know! 🙂

[karelpeeters]

I'd assume all of the Kotlin #scripting just works on Android as well?

[josh]

@karelpeeters I think you're right! https://kotlinexpertise.com/run-kotlin-scripts-from-kotlin-programs/

[gildor]

I would clearly distinguish between Kotlin scripting and interpreter.
Kotlin Scripting it's API on top of compiler, every code passed to repl, script engine etc will be compiled by full-blown Kotlin compiler (embedded version of it), so it's quite big dependency and not so fast (but fast enough for Repl usage)

And no, Kotlin interpreter doesn't exist (yet?)

So I wouldn't concider it as "lightweight" for now, especially for mobile. Depends on your use case for sure

[raulraja]

You can run kotlinc with a classpath and have a repl in the command line where you can interact with your module

[raulraja]

https://gist.github.com/mkobit/e06ddf93fcb9a67ded3426bd5a266bed

[raulraja]

The REPL experience is not great though compared to other langs out there

[pavi2410]

I am looking for something like this https://github.com/beanshell/beanshell

[pavi2410]

But for Kotlin

[pavi2410]

to use on Android

[pavi2410]

If I do not find one, I shall give a try to make one myself.

[raulraja]

@pavi2410 Kotlin ships with an implementation javax.script.ScriptEngine in case you are already dependent on that for beanshell https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/examples/kotlin-jsr223-local-example