Re:We need less powerful languages (2015)
by sli on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @08:37PM
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A lot of Lisp development is (or can be) REPL-based, Clojure(script) especially, but that's almost a whole paradigm in and of itself.
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Re:We need less powerful languages (2015)
by wtetzner on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:20PM
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Having spent a lot of time writing both Clojure and Rust professionally, I think a lot of the benefit you get from a REPL is making up for the lack of a good type system and good IDE support. I also find that the support Rust has for unit tests partially makes up for the lack of a REPL.
Clojure has a bunch of other benefits over Rust when it comes to quick prototyping though.