Hi, in the Elixir Discord, there was discussion about trying to get an Elixir REPL running through a chat bot. Would you be against a chat bot proxying the REPL through your hosted instance?

You can join in on the discussion here, in #off-topic.

I wrote something like

defmodule Kernel do
  def foo(), do: 1
end

into the REPL at https://tryelixir.net/ and now it just returns "error" for everything (500 Internal Server Error). I don't know if it died due to that but the timing seems suspect. Sorry about that. :(

Exceptions don't have their reasons properly escaped. If you send, for example, ""[], you will receive the JSON payload: {"prompt":"iex(17)> ","type":"error","result":"** (Protocol.UndefinedError) protocol Access not implemented for """}, which fails JSON.parse in the browser because of the double quotes embedded inside the result string.

Love the app, though, thanks!

Does your highly anticipated app work at http://tryelixir.org/ ?

Not really sure how to handle this, maybe change the promptText and simulate a return key press for each line?

There's one example of multi-line code in the step 9 of the tutorial.

This is a nice tool to help teach people interested in Elixir, but the Elixir version has slipped a bit.

It would be great if it could be updated and deployed with the latest stable release.

I was going through the tutorial, but couldn't get several things to work. Some examples:

iex(1)> x = 1
1
iex(2)> x
** (CompileError) iex:1: function x/0 undefined

iex(1)> [head|tail] = [1, 2, 3]
[1, 2, 3]
iex(1)> head
** (CompileError) iex:1: function head/0 undefined

iex(1)> square = &1 * &1
#Function<erl_eval.6.80484245>
iex(2)> square.(4)
** (CompileError) iex:1: function square/0 undefined

iex(1)> cube = fn x -> x * x * x end
#Function<erl_eval.6.80484245>
iex(2)> cube(8)
** (RuntimeError) restricted
iex(1)> cube.(8)
** (CompileError) iex:1: function cube/0 undefined

Then I turned cookies on and everything worked!