[GitHub] [spark] hvanhovell commented on pull request #40515: [SPARK-42884][CONNECT] Add Ammonite REPL integration

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hvanhovell commented on PR #40515:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40515#issuecomment-1480012982

   @dongjoon-hyun officially is a bit a broad term. As far as I am concerned ammonite is just a way to use the connect JVM client, it is not meant as a change for all of Spark (although I do think it might make sense). We use other libraries all the time, and I don't think we have ever discussed those in the mailing list.
   
   As it stands there are two reasons for using ammonite:
   - It is a better and easier to use REPL than the Scala REPL ever was.
   - It is easier to customize. Connect is a good illustration, for the Scala REPL I will probably need to the same thing as we did for the spark REPL project and that is fork the source code. In ammonite this was a minor modification.
   
   I do intent to add support for the regular REPL at some point, this was just easier to get started with.
   
   If you feel strongly about this then I am happy to send a message to the dev-list.


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