Cell runs forever when using interactive.csharp.getVariable in conjunction with console.log in a javascript cell

Describe the bug

Creating the following .dib file and executing the cells (usually) causes the second cell to run indefinitely:

#!csharp

int i = 1234;

#!javascript

let x = 0
interactive.csharp.getVariable('i').then(v => console.log(v))
console.log(x)

.NET Interactive Version

Neither #!about or dotnet interactive --version seemed to work for me, but the vscode extension says it’s the following version: v1.0.2309030

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[jonsequitur]

Closing this. interactive.csharp.getVariable has been removed as #!share is now supported in JavaScript kernels.

[jonsequitur]

maybe more after that promise is fulfilled.

The example code has a race condition. If the cell execution completes before the promise is fulfilled, you’ll only get the 0 output, which is by design. This is what I see most of the time. Occasionally though (and presumably more often on some hardware) it does either print both outputs and complete or run forever.

If I await the promise, I see both outputs 100% of the time, and can’t reproduce the endlessly-running cell. This suggests to me that the race condition is the reason the cell execution doesn’t complete, which would be a bug in our JavaScript evaluation code in the VS Code extension. @RandomFractals or @Treit, do you see the same when running this:

let x = 0
console.log(await interactive.csharp.getVariable('i'))
console.log(x)

@brettfo?