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+# Scaling the REPL Experience
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+The REPL (Read-eval-print loop) is an invaluable tool used by many programmers to great satisfaction.
+It shines best for programming in the small, but when programming in the large, developers rarely use it, with systems languages like Go and Rust not even offering a REPL.
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+We have identified three reasons why the REPL doesn't currently suit programming in the large, which we have titled "Bandwidth", "Liveness", and "Availability".
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+We describe these problems, and also offer a solution to each one, which we demonstrate in Lamdu. Lamdu is a live programming projectional code editor with a statically typed purely functional programming language, which we are developing.