☭
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
@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?
Follow
@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)