Hello, I believe it would be extremely helpful to old and new elixir developers to be able to try out packages without the need to create a whole project. Developers coming from different backgrounds (python, ruby, etc) are used to getting into the interactive shell and just importing/requiring the package they need and start playing with it.
I don't know if this is technically possible with iex, but it would definitely change how I work with elixir in general. Something like: iex --hex <package1> <package2> Even if it takes longer to start, at least I could try those packages without creating a dummy project and including those packages as dependencies and then compiling everything. One command to rule them all. Maybe `iex --hex` could create a temporary dummy project behind the scenes? For what it's worth, I'd be *very* willing to help work on implementing this if it's going to happen. I apologize if this has been discussed or brought up before. I couldn't find a similar topic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/40ef0ab9-7d92-4601-b445-de7c5796c046o%40googlegroups.com.
