Any lightweight Kotlin interpreter in the market?

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

Took time but I understood 😂

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

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

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

I want the Repl to be embeddable as a library

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! 🙂

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

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

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

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

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

@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