> You can ask developers to adapt and use a long-running repl, but they won't I mean, that's a you problem. My team is well adapted. Does your team also code

> You can ask developers to adapt and use a long-running repl, but they won't I mean, that's a you problem. My team is well adapted. Does your team also code in notepad exclusively and chooses to not use an editor with IDE features? Cause I feel that's your argument, that people won't bother using any tooling when developing in a language out of laziness to learn to use tooling? Even if the REPL started in sub-milliseconds, I'd still be connected to a long-session most of the time. Why restart it constantly? There's no point, you lose your state, you lose the context you were in, it take me out of my productivity zone.