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How to open kotlin repl using kotlin-native-linux?

I just downloaded kotlin compiler kotlin-native-linux-1.3.61.tar.gz from here: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.3.61

But when I try to open the repl, as proposed in the documentation, running: 

/opt/kotlin-native-linux-1.3.61/bin/kotlinc

I get: 

error: you have not specified any compilation arguments. No output has been produced.

The documentation says: "We can run the compiler without parameters to have an interactive shell"

How can I open the kotlin repl?

Solution

  • repl is available in kotlin-compiler-1.3.61.zip.

    kotlin-native is for compiling Kotlin code to native binaries, which can run without a virtual machine.

    Probably there is no reason to add repl and -script support on kotlinc of kotlin-native package.