Bic
Dev tools
c interpreter repl
SHOW HN2019
181points
26comments
#224of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for learning C and quick debugging from source files
From 2 comments
This is really cool, nice work. I especially like the bit about putting a REPL statement in a source file to have it drop into bic. Seems like a quick and dirty way to debug…
smhenderson on HNI often looked for this and failed to find something that I could easily use. So I'm delighted to see this as a on/off C amateur and learner.
scandox on HN
Objections
Lacks syntax highlighting
From 1 comment
It lacks the syntax highlight. They could have used tree-sitter[1] for parsing, then the online highlight would be easier to implement. [1]…
xvilka on HN
Build fails with missing tree-sitter web binding files and claims of dependency-free are questioned
From 1 comment
> Dependency-free so that the runtime library (which is written in pure C) can be embedded in any application What does dependency-free mean? I mean, it does depend on 128…
johnisgood on HN
Requests
Jupyter integration
From 1 comment
an integration with jupyter would be nice.
israrkhan on HN
Questions
Why fputs returns 1
From 1 comment
Why is fputs returning 1?
emilfihlman on HN
Alternatives named
CERN ROOT / cling
From 2 comments
Reminds me of CERN’s ROOT which has C/C++ interpreter https://root.cern.ch/
sshb on HNTheir new repl is called cling: https://github.com/root-project/cling (They had an old one called C-INT or something like that).
kzrdude on HN
C-Terp
From 1 comment
In the late 80s there was a product called C-Terp, which I loved! Here's a link to a brief description:…
fortran77 on HN