Not really, I often don't need them. They're mostly for being able to reset the full app state back to how it is at startup. You can also just restart the REPL,

Not really, I often don't need them. They're mostly for being able to reset the full app state back to how it is at startup. You can also just restart the REPL, though some people find waiting 5 second for that too annoying. I wish the restart times were much faster, but its not as big a problem as most people make it sound like. Often time, you can just learn to mold your program in smarter ways, so that you don't get yourself in weird inconsistent states, or you learn how to fix your state instead of starting over. Or you use mount, components. Integrant, etc. They're really low overhead, mount is trivial to add, its like 4 more characters per global variable. Having said that, Clojure isn't the best thing ever, just the most interactive language I know of currently that is mature enough and has a large enough ecosystem I can use it for commercial software. Do you have other recommendations for a language that meets these criterias?