Embedding dotty compiler into an application...

[david crosson]

Hello,

is it already possible to embed dotty compiler in an experimental application, and have this application compile & load & run (in place) some external source code ?

to achieve the same kind of effects we can get with twitter util-eval (https://gist.github.com/ykskm/2275338#file-useconfig-scala)

David.

[Guillaume Martres]

Yes, it's possible, but there is no high-level API that does exactly that, the
closest to this would be the REPL (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/tree/
master/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/repl).

[raphae...@free.fr]

What about JSR-223 ? Do you plan to support it ? If so, everything is already done in 2.12.

Raphael

[Guillaume Martres]

JSR-223 is not supported by Dotty currently, someone would have to adapt the work that was done for Scala 2.