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by jimmyhmiller 2893 days ago
With Clojure you get that feedback loop by running everything in an open repl. No startup time needed.
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pmarreck 2892 days ago
so you rerun tests in a REPL? what happens when something is redefined?
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yogthos 2892 days ago
Typically Clojure apps are structured to be reloadable meaning that you don't have any global state, and you can easily flush the current REPL state http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/06/04/clojure-workflow-r...

There are also tools like lein-test-refresh https://github.com/jakemcc/lein-test-refresh that figure out what needs to be reloaded automatically. You start it up, it watches your namespaces for changes, and reruns tests as needed. As a bonus it can even hook into your OS notification system and let you know if any tests fail.

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ilikehurdles 2887 days ago
A lot of editor integration will handle reloading and test-running for you (including VSCode's calva extension, Cursive, and Proto REPL for Atom, although it's less "automatic" than the others).
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