Yes, I've been saying "live interactive development" instead of REPL more recently, and I think it conveys the idea much better. Since in Lisps, a REPL means:

Yes, I've been saying "live interactive development" instead of REPL more recently, and I think it conveys the idea much better. Since in Lisps, a REPL means: > a live integrated inside an application REPL that lets you evaluate and hot-swap every single line of code at will and on-demand all at runtime without ever needing to restart the application, while also being able to inspect the runtime state at will