[finalfantasia]

I think what @iLemming meant is that she/he doesn’t understand the appeal of having a fancy REPL _UI_ (mostly virtual terminal emulator-based readline implementations) and working with it _directly_ as opposed to sending forms from your editor of choice to a REPL server.

I kind of hold the same opinion. Being more powerful, feature-rich, flexible than readline implementations, editors are, by design, more suited to editing forms. And, I believe, “sending forms from your editor to the REPL” is what the “REPL-driven development” encourages.

[capableweb]

Ilemming doesn't seem to care about the UI to the REPL. They simply don't care about REPLs at all. At least that's what I understand from:

> I almost never type directly in the REPL, even when I have it in my IDE

I agree that it's more comfortable to be able to send forms from your editor to be evaled somewhere else, I myself don't use the CLI REPL very much, but since I use vim-fireplace, I guess my REPL is in the terminal anyways.

Since it wasn't clear in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22193862 what language iLemming uses or have experience with REPLs, I just wanted them to clarify.

[iLemming]

Sorry my bad, I should've probably clarified that I meant Lisp REPLs specifically.