On Fri Sep 16 10:24 2011, Raoul Duke wrote: > hi, > > i dream of having a remote repl onto e.g. android so that i can try to > reduce the write-push-run-test-debug-repeat cycle time. pretty please, > does anybody have insights / experience / git hub forks / ideas about > this? getting to a point where i can do code updates more easily, in > fragments, would be so much better than the current molasses android > developer situation, i gotta hopoe...
Well, this can and has been done. There is a version of Clojure out there that supports dynamic compilation on Android (based on a 1.2.0 release of Clojure) [1]. With this, it is possible to include some sort of server on the Android device that can provide a REPL. For example, the Clojure REPL for Android supports a VimClojure-compatible server (no source available, yet). Due to how dynamic compilation occurs, it's slow (a few seconds), but it sure beats having to do an entire compile/deploy cycle. As I will be talking about Android and Clojure at the Conj this year, I will be making an effort to update the Clojure code to release 1.3 and release the code to the REPL itself. Sincerely, Daniel Solano Gómez [1]: https://github.com/sattvik/clojure/tree/android-1.2.x
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