In rails I can drop into console and play with APIs in repl. What’s the .net equivalent?
.NET languages have REPLs too.
Oh, so you can do things like User.where(name: “Bill”).pluck &:id
In the repl?
I have no experience with .net and it looks like these repls are new
I think at least some of the REPLs came about with the new compiler architecture, yes. That isn't exactly new anymore, but new compared to the overall age of .NET.