diff --git a/lib/esm/repl.js b/lib/esm/repl.js
index 681a853d5167355799f28418297e570e7d95e5c1..44d68ef5f726639a360f606fb9c271966dcf341b 100644
--- a/lib/esm/repl.js
+++ b/lib/esm/repl.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export class Repl {
         this.autocompleter = autocompleter(program);
         // Stop the server to avoid eval'ing stdin from prompts
         this.program.on('run', () => {
-            this.stop();
+            // this.stop();
         });
     }
     attachHistory(history) {
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ export class Repl {
         // Since we stop the server when a command is executed (by listening to the
         // 'run' event in the constructor), we need to start a new instance when the
         // command is finished.
-        this.start();
+        // this.start();
         // The result passed to this function is printed by the Node REPL server,
         // but we don't want to use that, so we pass undefined instead.
         cb(null, undefined);