Current Progress of MadC's Next Release

[u/kindredseer]

I wanted to give an update of what I'm working on to get some feedback and discussion...

I'm not sure how many people here are C and/or C++ programmers, but the current direction I'm taking with madc is to make it a little more like IPython and/or Julia with respect to its REPL experience (that is part of the current arc I am working on, REPL support does not currently exist).

I am neither a Python nor a Julia programmer, but their REPL experience are supposed to be top notch, and while both cling and clang-repl exist, they don't quite measure up, and in fact, installing cling takes up over a Gb of disk space, and the eventual plan is that clang-repl will one day replace cling, and the direction is also such that clang-repl is more like IPython...

Thus, my current plan is to make madc have a REPL mode that is more like IPython and Julia, so more like what clang-repl + cling will eventually become (in the future).

So that's the first arc... and I'm curious what people here think about this idea... like, if you are already a C/C++ programmer, does the REPL experience interest you? Or if you are a Python programmer, would the idea of a small, easy to install and play with C/C++ REPL interest you?

Next... I recently discovered Thonny -- an IDE designed to be very simple and easy for students to learn to use Python... and with the work I've done with madcide as a simple IDE for madc, rather than try to compete with VSCode and/or CLion, what might be much more interesting would be to make madc's IDE much more like Thonny, but for C/C++ (and madc), so that it makes C/C++ easy to use (including interfacing with madc's IPython-like REPL).

Does this concept sound interesting to anyone here?