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JDI Mind Tricks
I have always used a REPL driven approach to Clojure development and this has been very productive, but at times I have really missed the old school approach of setting break points and stepping through code, examining variables along the way. While there are some very capable solutions that get me part of the way there (proto-repl, etc.), I…
Proto REPL – Updates to the Clojure REPL for Atom
Proto REPL is a Clojure REPL for the Atom Editor that I introduced in a blog post last October. When I introduced Proto REPL, I wrote “The future of interactive development is going to be visual.” and that “ATOM is at its heart a web browser that means you can use the combination of HTML/CSS/JavaScript right in your editor for visualizations”. Proto REPL was only barely scratching the surface of what you could do to enhance interactivity or provide visualizations in your editor. A lot has changed since then to give Proto REPL a better Clojure development experience.