[mark_l_watson]

Nice article.

One thing, re “In Python we typically restart everything at each code change“: I sometimes run Python in Emacs with a REPL. I evaluate region to pick up edits. Not bad.

The big win for the Common Lisp REPL is being able to modify data, do restarts, etc. I usually use Common Lisp, but for right now I am heavily using Clojure to write examples for a new Clojure AI book that I am writing. I miss the Common Lisp REPL!

[lukashrb]

The first time I encountered "interactive development" was when I had to use python with jupiter notebook. I really liked this style of development. The tdd approach I practiced before was somewhat similar but by far not as visual.

Clojure was an eye opener for me and I think it offers a great developer experience (e.g. I'm addicted to C-c C-p)

It seems my journey hasn't ended and I definitely have to check out CL!

But atm it's hard for me to give up the things clojure offers to me: persistent datastructures, access to a great ecosystem and a very good designed standard library.