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by tikkabhuna 3220 days ago
I'm interested to see how useful Java's REPL is going to be. Like you I will use a JUnit test, or maybe a standalone class with a main method, to test a small bit of code. With Eclipse's debug support I don't feel the need for a REPL.
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_pmf_ 3219 days ago
> With Eclipse's debug support I don't feel the need for a REPL.

Clojure managed to make the tremendously powerful JVM debugging ecosystem completely useless (without providing any replacement with equal power).

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joncampbelldev 3219 days ago
As a person who has used the standard java debugger in intellij for clojure, could you expand on what features are missing?

I find I don't get much use out of it anyway, due to immutable values and (mostly) pure functions I find I don't usually need the whole program to be running and frozen in time.

However, I'd like to know what I'm missing.

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