Language Updates | Voters

Repl.it

Create

Roadmap

Feedback

2963

Language Updates

in progress

Tim Chen

Existing goval languages (languages not run on the client) will be updated to a more recent version as long as they are backwards compatible (most are). Est. completion: Early 2019

January 8, 2019

VictorVillavice

Please update Julia 1.3 (Dec. 2019) to Julia 1.5.3(Nov. 2020). As a High School Teacher I use it to teach , for example, Unicode variables in Linear Algebra equations, manipulate JSON, CSV files via DataFrames, and by default has 1 indexing of arrays, not zero indexing.

BeeJay

Hi,
It’s been a while since the first time I joined replit. But it seems replit is not following the development of some of the tools (compilers or interpreters) being used. For example, replit is still using Swift v.5.0 and Free Pascal v.3.0 while they are now v.5.3 and v.3.2 respectively.
So, could we get the latest stable version of our tools? At least for Swift and Free Pascal that I use pretty frequently.
Thank you.
Best regards,
~Bee

xxpertHacker

@BeeJay: As a temporary workaround, you can create a bash Repl, and install the newest versions of the interpreters/compilers/etc into a location that they are not already installed in, then run those against your code.

Hope it helps.

AMcC

whats the roadmap regarding updating repls to use latest versions? E.g. R-Lang 4.0, C# 9.0 etc etc.

xxpertHacker

@AMcC: I genuinely believe that this has already been long forgotten :(

AMcC

I have been promoting teams to colleagues. One wanted to use it for data science, but as the R language version is stuck on 3.5 when version 4.0 is needed, that's now unlikely to happen

xxpertHacker

@AMcC: Yes, it

sucks

but

you can probably find a workaround. Maybe download the newest R compiler binary to a seperate location and use that?

xxpertHacker

> ...as long as they are backwards compatible
Why are you applying this limitation?
Can't we just have the newest version? Better yet, since Repl is always 3+ years behind, give us the beta versions!

tschanzpcv

So what's the state on updating versions? Launching a TypeScript Repl results in NodeJS 10.21.0 while LTS is on 14.15.0 and TypeScript 3.3.3 while the latest release is 4.0.5 - Is there any roadmap, plan or workaround? For faster moving targets like deno, it's already long out of date already.

MatthewDoan1

Please update Kotlin, please! It's in beta and currently running 1.0.3! (Current version is 1.3.61, and it has a lot of new features!)

ndrewxie

Update rust - newest version is 1.38.0, the current version in repl.it is 1.36.0

CTO

Any update on the updates? Esp. Rust and lack of Cargo-Support.

YaacovIland

Python With Turtle is running Python 2, it would be great to get Python 3.7 or higher.

theangryepicbanana

Please update Ruby as well

→