Java has had something a bit REPL-like for a while in the form of Java BeanShell, but this project was never a fully featured REPL on par with those of other languages. It was just a subset of the ...

Java could add a Lisp-based read-evaluate-print-loop tool as part of Project Kulla, but developers debate whether it's a good fit. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The acronym REPL stands for Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop. Many languages (most notably, the scripting languages) already have REPL tools. Java has a few third-party REPL tools, including Java REPL and ...

In Clojure we often have code and a REPL side by side, evaluating forms or files frequently. In Java we are still stuck with the edit, compile, run cycle which makes it harder to iterate quickly. When ...

SD Times news digest: September 3, 2014—Project Kulla’s Java REPL tool, and coding boot camp for military vets ...