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Support for ClojureScript

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mahmoudhossam commented

ClojureScript compiles to JS already.

Is it possible to see support for it on repl.it?

amasad commented

ClojureScript is a compiler written in Clojure which needs the JVM to run and can't run natively in the browser. However we could try to add a Java Applet to the page and add support for Clojure, Scala and ClojureScript.
This technique (if worked) will suffer from:

  1. No mobile support.
  2. Requires users to accept on running the Java Applet.

Despite all this it still be nice to see them in repl.it, I haven't had the time to play with that but I will keep this issue open and post the progress here. Also feel free to try with it yourself.

mahmoudhossam commented

I'm not familiar with Clojurescript or the repl.it codebase to perform such a task, I was wondering if it was possible.

I have to say that I'm against using applets because they don't work on some browsers (mobile browsers like you said), and if they do, they usually slow the browser down.