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by wmeddie 989 days ago
I think you can argue that the pervasive use of notebooks is close enough for learning at least, but it's not as good for real development. The edit-and-continue features in Visual Studio for C# (and similar feature in Java) is the closest non-lisp thing we have these days. The languages aren't made for it like lisp are though, you have to do full restarts all the time.

I still wish there was an environment more like Smalltalk for Python.
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fuzztester 989 days ago
>The edit-and-continue features in Visual Studio for C# (and similar feature in Java) is the closest non-lisp thing we have these days.

Some years ago I was playing around with Franz Lisp, and noticed an interesting debugging feature in it. A few days later, I was using a then-new version of Visual Studio for writing either C (not C++) or VB, and noticed the same cool feature in it, which MS was calling Edit and Continue.

IIRC, it was introduced in that VS version, but not sure, since I was not a regular Visual Studio user.

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pjmlp 988 days ago
On Microsoft ecosystem, it was initially introduced in VB.
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fuzztester 986 days ago
Interesting.
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dmitry-vsl 989 days ago
Shameless plug: I have always been fascinated by edit-and-continue and I build a JavaScript IDE centered around it.

https://leporello.tech/

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