Here is a question that I have about Clojure and its REPL. I have tried 3 times over a period of a year or so to get it to behave like a common lisp REPL and ev

Here is a question that I have about Clojure and its REPL. I have tried 3 times over a period of a year or so to get it to behave like a common lisp REPL and every single time I have hit a brick wall called project.clj and/or deps.edn (which open a terrifying black hole to maven). My simplest use case is to be able to call `(expt 2 10)` from a bare clojure install without leaving the repl. As far as I can tell it is impossible to achieve this. I finally gave up and wrote a gentoo ebuild to install the numeric tower just to see if it was possible [0]. What I learned was that I have no idea how clojure libraries interact with the JVM. `pomegranate` gets the closest but I'm still fairly certain that you can't install that from a repl without resorting to hackery [1]. I think I understand the tradeoff toward using project.clj and deps.edn to create sane and static environments for a project, but the friction is larger than nearly any other language that I have tried because you are practically forced to create a project structure in order to do anything. 0. https://github.com/tgbugs/tgbugs-overlay/blob/master/dev-java/math-numeric-tower/math-numeric-tower-0.0.4.ebuild https://github.com/tgbugs/tgbugs-overlay/blob/master/dev-jav... 1. https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate