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Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by leephillips on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:53PM (#27703808)
How so? In julia, one problem is that you can’t redefine datatypes in the REPL. You need to restart.
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Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by shele on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:49PM (#27705320)
Yes, that restart is painful exactly because it interrupts the "built your program in memory while you’re writing the source code file" OP talks about.
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