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by easrng 1245 days ago
wdym, JS has good interactive development with browser devtools. and you can write pretty much all js as expressions if you want to.
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I agree, I write JS professionally.

But there is a _qualitative_ difference between interactive development between JS and a Lisp like Clojure. And "pretty much" is also qualitatively less expressive than "everything is an expression".

I write expression based, simple, mostly functional JS and I use tools to make that as interactive as is practical. But there's still a lot of friction and differences between that and development with a Lisp (in my case Clojure).

That’s just as true of Java nowadays, though. Plenty of languages have REPLs.