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Re:How much can a Clojure developer do alone? by sli on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:35PM (#26638482)
I was very productive in Clojure for some number of years and never once, not a single time, found benefit in REPL-driven development. I've used it here and there just to test little snippets, but never actually used it for real.

Frequently I found it unnecessary, anyway. Clojure just made it way to easy to get things right that I rarely had to dive in and figure out why something was wrong.

These days I prefer types over Lisps for that, but people change.

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Re:How much can a Clojure developer do alone? by blandflakes on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:58PM (#26641573)
Totally agree. I found Clojure to be an amazing, well-designed language. I found the REPL to be secondary to really great immutable data structures and pragmatic escape hatches.
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