[Jach]

Oh, I'm all for interactive development, one of the reasons I prefer dynamic languages is precisely that, I just don't think the utility of having a static (or animated, or auto-reloading ((!) changing output in a non-ncurses shell?!) image in the shell is that useful compared to the engineering effort and what feels to me the loss of the shell's essential character. ncurses is about the limit of having enough control to make a game vs. having something that isn't a shell interface anymore. The shell isn't a monolithic IDE which you only run one instance of, the closest analogy I use is "vim+Linux are my IDE" and terminal windows are just windows to interface with my "IDE" that I can run any time. eom theoretically supports auto image reloading, though other viewers definitely do. When I edit LaTeX files, I do so in vim, and have the PDF open in evince/atril to the side which auto-refreshes when I save the file (if I set up vim to run latexmk on save, otherwise it's just an extra command I do). This is just the same when doing ClojureScript development -- your IDE doesn't necessarily reload and try to support all the features of a browser, the programmer just uses an actual browser to the side and you use whatever IDE or text editor you like and a file monitor manages the auto-reloading stuff.