And yes, my use of the term REPL is quite loose – what you’ve shown is more accurate I think, like the PHP interactive shell (`php -a`), which Dart doesn’t seem to have.

Oh, no, I didn’t realize there was an integrated terminal now! 😱 Time to revisit again. And thanks for posting the repo! 🙂

I don’t know if you know, but nowadays (since Vim 8, I believe?) you have native terminal functionality right inside the editor. So suddenly a lot of things that previously required tmux or GNU screen can be done natively.

Here is the equivalent functionality using just `:term`:

And here is a different take on REPL — more in the Lisp sense — where you have a VM running alongside an editor, and you can press Enter on a block of text to “send” it to the VM. For instance, define a function in the source file and press Enter to load it in the VM:

The latter works thanks to a tiny script that I just forced myself to put on GitHub: https://github.com/mcsf/vim-repl. I don’t know if it’s your jam, but I hope this proves useful! 🙂

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I went back to the SO article where someone had succeeded, and noticed this line: “However macOS System Integrity Protection (SIP) will prevent you from overwriting the xdebug.so under /usr/lib/php/extensions/.” So instead, I created a new directory elsewhere, hooked it all up again in php.ini, and finally got the confirmation I was wanting:
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The author already mentions that macOS’s System Integrity Protection will prevent you from writing into /usr/lib/php/extensions. He made a new directory /usr/local/lib/php/extensions and copied it there instead.

+1 Thanks a lot