Ep 044: What's So Different About Clojure's REPL?

Functional Design in Clojure

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This week, the question is: "What's so different about Clojure's REPL?" We evaluate what a REPL really is and show that it's much more about the developer experience than simply calculating values.

Selected quotes:

"The Clojure REPL is your window into the state of a running application."

"It's a much larger, broader kind of experience."
"It's funny to have mutable programs and immutable data, but that's what Clojure gives you."
"The fact that the REPL can read expressions and run them becomes one of it's least interesting attributes."

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