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Re:The one about Lisp interactivity by tonyarkles on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:52PM (#33567922)
I’ve done it in Elixir a handful of times to try to understand a bug that I couldn’t reproduce in my dev environment. And a few times to run some queries for a client and dump them out to CSV.
Re:The one about Lisp interactivity by fud101 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @11:05AM (#33584265)
You used an elixir debugger on production?
Re:The one about Lisp interactivity by tonyarkles on Monday November 14, 2022 @12:30PM (#33597604)
Elixir REPL in production yeah. Not to modify anything, but to inspect the state of the world and figure out why some OTP apps were dying. I'm drawing a blank on the name of the build tool, but the "launch binary" it produces has an option to fire up a second copy of your app, keep the console alive, and connect it to the cluster as another node. Worked like a charm, although it's something I wouldn't want to do on a regular basis :)