[barrell]

Recently moved my python app over to Elixir, and currently gushing over Elixir every day. I'm a huge fan and have loved everything about it, except...

Comping from a LISP, the Elixir REPL really is not world-class. It's a really far, distant second. It's nice, I enjoy it more than python's personally, and more than what I remember from irb back in the day -- but nothing beats the integration of structural editing and nREPLs.

LISP doesn't have to be for you, but there's still a lot to learn from that REPL experience if the Elixir community wants to grow ;)

[epiccoleman]

Yeah, I considered adding a caveat to my post. The LISP repl experience is of course the real gold standard (especially when you've got good editor integration, like the various Emacs packages).

I love LISP in general - was a big Clojure fan for a while - but I feel like Elixir threads the needle of usability much better for me.

Anyway, I'll stand by my claim - Elixir's REPL is leaps and bounds better than Python's, and better than irb and pry by some smaller amount. It's a pleasure to use. I would love to see a world where I can send expressions for evaluation to the REPL as easily as you can with LISP. Maybe we'll get there someday!