With a set-up like Cider in Emacs (and I wouldn't be surprised if Cursive with IntelliJ has something similar), you can write code in a file and send it to the

With a set-up like Cider in Emacs (and I wouldn't be surprised if Cursive with IntelliJ has something similar), you can write code in a file and send it to the repl for evaluation.[0] This is a common method of development which accomplishes what you describe: code in a source file, evaluation in the repl. [0]: https://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactive_programming/ https://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactive_programmi...