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Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) by wry_discontent on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:21PM (#20841114)
I've starting building my personal backends in Clojure and I am amazed at how easy and fast it is to get things going. The difference is even more remarkable for frontend code. I get my program into a state that displays some unfinished component and iterate until it's done. ZERO reloading is a huge time saver.

Now if I could only get my React Native programs running with Clojurescript...

Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) by iLemming on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:34PM (#20841248)
Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) by serpix on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:49AM (#20844814)
re-natal does this and it works as advertised. Zero reloading, full repl connection to running program. There is no competition, and won't be.
Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) by wry_discontent on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:51AM (#20867780)
I know what I'm doing tonight....rewriting my RN project
Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997) by escherize on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:47PM (#20841396)
There's been a lot of work around this lately. Here's an article: https://clojureverse.org/t/react-native-expo-with-shadow-clj...

tldr: npm install something fast hot reloads data-oriented clojurey goodness