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> Incremental compilation, edit-and-continue are available in Visual C and C++.

In a particular toolchain not available cross-platform - not comparable to Zig having it available in the reference implementation, which is open-source and cross-platform.

> REPLs do exist for C and C++.

Hacky, nonstandard ones with limitations and altered semantics that aren't included in any of the major IDE's. Not remotely comparable to what's provided with SLIME.



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