I have ~8 months of Clojure experience and ~3 years of F#. Clojure's REPL and feedback loop is bloody marvelous. F# also has a REPL, but it doesn't compare. However I still prefer F#'s type-safety. (I believe) a key part of how Clojure's REPL works is by compiling top level forms into JVM instructions which it puts into global mutable scope. Clojure can run on the CLR, so it seems this should be possible with F# as well. It would be cool if F# could temporarily bypass type-safety to quickly iterate on a module before plugging it back into the rest of an assembly and re-enabling type safety. There's no reason to recompile everything when all I want is to test out a 1 line delta independent of its... uh... dependents.<p>Basically, I want Jupyter-stype notebooks to be my primary dev environment. The blog goes in that direction, but calling code via<p><pre><code> let result = assembly |> extract<string -> Async<unit>> "This.Is.A.Namespace.HelloHost.myFunc"
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is just yuck. What I want probably requires language level changes.
I have never expected my blog post to be in Hacker News. The aim of all of it is to be able to have F#-script-powered plugins in otherwise compiled code. Check out my example here: <a href="https://github.com/queil/fsc-host/blob/main/examples/CompileAndExtract/Program.fs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/queil/fsc-host/blob/main/examples/Compile...</a>