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by KRAKRISMOTT 972 days ago
Awesome work, super pumped for this. I wish the Clojure devs would release a first party debugger, almost every other lisp has one built in.
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I doubt that would happen due to the focus on core libraries and tooling being platform agnostic, and deferring users to host tooling (and libraries) whenever possible.

The difference between debugging and profiling Clojure and ClojureScript is night and day. e.g. async-profiler and VisualVM are much better than whatever I've seen in the Node.js and browser ecosystems. But tools like FlowStorm seem to be helping close this gap, if you decide to use the custom compilers designed for it.

As someone whose day job is developing with ClojureScript, I've been keeping a close eye on developments in FlowStorm, and I always send this video to get people interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXT-RHHuvI