Does dart interactive work in the browser?

[jlewi]

Does dart interactive work in the browser? My naive understanding is that dart_interactive relies on the Dart VM. IUC on the web Dart compiles to JS and doesn't rely on the Dart VM docs.
Is there any path to creating a dart REPL on the web?

[welcome]

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[fzyzcjy]

Yes I think so.

As for web, I guess it may be hard. For example, even flutter does not support hot reload on web flutter/flutter#53041 . Maybe we can wait for that issue, and if that is supported maybe we have enough infra to implement it?

[jlewi]

@fzyzcjy Could you explain how you think this might work on the web? I think for this discussion we can ignore flutter.
IUC dart on mobile/desktop relies on JIT and a VM which allows for a REPL. However, on web I believe dart is compiled to JS and then executed. Is there someway to run the dart VM on web?

[fzyzcjy]

@jlewi I have not heard of any. I am not sure, maybe we need to wait for new Dart features if possible?

[fzyzcjy]

The reason why I say wait for flutter is that, if flutter does that successfully, then it may mean that Dart supports vm on web, or dart provides a new infra, etc, then we can utilize it.

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