[filoeleven]

My thoughts exactly!

I’ve only been playing with Clojure for a few months, but it feels like a spaceship. This addition just adds to the mystique.

My first thought upon seeing the REBL browser in action was that it looks like those protocols enable something like Smalltalk’s amazing integrated full-system dev environment—the most intriguing aspect of that language to me by far—to the Clojure world, without having to buy into the “system as image” paradigm that Smalltalk seems to require. Can anyone with Smalltalk experience comment on how accurate this hunch is? It just screams “best of both worlds” to this noob.

EDIT: I should have read the other comments first: it looks like this is a common sentiment, which is very encouraging. I’d still like to hear the first impressions of a Smalltalk veteran.