State of the REPL

[71]

After spending the good part of my day working on a REPL, I discovered that it already exists, as the nim secret command.

Is there any specific reason for keeping it secret? Nothing in the manual or docs refers to this feature.

[refi64]

It was killed in #2633, and IIRC the rationale was that it had a crapton of odd bugs/edge-cases in it.

[andreaferretti]

It also relies on the interpreter (the thing which is used in macros and compile time function execution) and as such it cannot import modules that rely on C code, that is, most of the stdlib

[dom96]

it cannot import modules that rely on C code, that is, most of the stdlib

This is the biggest problem with it.