What's your opinion?

Question

JShell is a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) for Java. In my opinion best new feature.
Makes Java easier to play with and learn. What's your opinion?

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/jshell-and-repl-in-java-9

Answer 1

well, given Java is 20 and after exhausting every OOP feature that will not drive programmers mad, it is slowly catching up with other languages of the land that is JVM. Jython and Jruby and Clojure and Scala and even something as young as Kotlin all have a REPL. I'm glad Java finally presents a REPL. I badly wish this jshell was presented a decade or so ago.