[shriramkmurthi]

Thanks. This is where our “education first” emphasis comes in. I'd like that too, but it's just not our most critical need. Since it can be run on top of Node from a shell, what it mainly lacks is a REPL. One of our students took a shot at that and had half an implementation, but didn't finish it. So for someone interested in hacking on that, there is a starting point, and a REPL atop Node would a big win. I'd use it every day (-:.

[zem]

it's not the lack of a repl I mind so much as the startup time. I'd love to be able to write small command line apps in pyret but the execution delay is painful. (that said, I fully appreciate the focus on education; there are lots of other scripting languages I can use!)

[shriramkmurthi]

I agree! We're acutely conscious of it. This is precisely where, as you note, the education focus puts our resources elsewhere. Once those things settle down, this is something we're going to want very much even for ourselves.