[EsotericAlgo]

It's not better if you have an environment that allows easy iterative function development.

This is just a way to achieve that. However, combined with some of the other clojure niceties (namely cider and structural editing) it does make it a better experience for me.

It allows me to maintain a better flow as I can maintain REPL state if needed(especially if it's a quick hack where dependency injection like component isn't worth the overhead). When I'm done exercising the code I can just make minimal changes to make the comment a test, leave it in place, or move it over to a bag-of-tricks user.clj.