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Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter, built on the top of LLVM and Clang libraries.
C++ interpreter seems extremely cursed, C was never meant to be interactive... I am somewhat curious how they did it
@vaporeon_ In high energy physics we used this for almost all of our data analysis
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ fun fact, java has had an official repl since java 9
@vaporeon_ particle physicists used to use CINT, an open-source C++ interpreter
They switched to Cling in 2013
@wallhackio Why are particle physicists interpreting C++ instead of compiling it?
@vaporeon_ because the people who made ROOT forgot that python exists
@vaporeon_ (this is a joke obviously they knew python existed. But what they are doing is a perfect use case for python. They did eventually make python bindings to the C++ library physicists use to analyze particle physics data but it was too late, everyone just uses cling now)
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ Cling is also free software, dual licensed under a bespoke 3 clause BSD license and the LGPL
Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter, built on the top of LLVM and Clang libraries. Its advantages over the standard interpreters
interpreters?? plural??? what else is there beside CINT????
@aescling @vaporeon_ C++ is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i was SO confused when he was explaining it to me