I do almost all of my work in Clojure and have for nearly 7 years. I don’t actually miss a traditional debugger much. I’ve occasionally tried one out, but an in

I do almost all of my work in Clojure and have for nearly 7 years. I don’t actually miss a traditional debugger much. I’ve occasionally tried one out, but an interactive REPL and immutable data means printlns with the occasional conditional to sample an expression are surprisingly pretty good. If you add generative testing via spec or test.generative, you can simulate lots of the scenarios you’d otherwise be desperate to have a dump of the environment to inspect. If you get there, profilers usually tell the story in adequate detail. Profiling and debugging are related and often share responsibilities.