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Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.
by poulsbohemian 8y ago
Since you've been using this for a while, maybe you can educate me on the benefit of this over a shell or IDE on my local system? I don't quite get it.
- jgalt212 8y agoI can quickly run some code on my daughter's Chrome book. I like having that option.
- RBerenguel 8y agoWe've occasionally used it when discussing Python X vs Python Y behaviours across separate machines (I don't have 3.6 installed but 3.7, a coworker has 3.6 but no 3.7) and are the kind of questions you just want to quickly check, not create a new virtual environment (under Homebrew on Mac, good luck having 3.6 _and_ 3.7 if you regularly `brew cleanup`...) or spin a docker instance. The coworker also regularly tries Scala stuff there (he's had to code review some simple things to start getting familiar with the language), he seems to like it more than the normal Scala repl (which I use). It's also handy for funny little languages you may not have (the APL version it has is decent enough, for instance, although I prefer GNU, as the free one)
- philwelch 8y agopyenv is a good solution for managing multiple Python version installations.
- solarkraft 8y agoYes, but this is better for quickly trying something.
- philwelch 8y agoDefinitely agreed on that.
- RBerenguel 8y agoThanks, I had assumed it would have issues with 3.6 binary not svailable. Will try sgain (although my plan is get everybody using 3.7...)
- pmoriarty 8y agoAlso, on an ordinary local repl, I'm never going to have to suffer through watching ads... which is where I see this sort of thing headed.
- meguest 8y agoI use it whenever I don't have a local shell available. For example, when using an iPhone or iPad, or if I need to test something real quick in language X and I don't have X installed on the machine.