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wdym, JS has good interactive development with browser devtools. and you can write pretty much all js as expressions if you want to.
by easrng 4y ago
wdym, JS has good interactive development with browser devtools. and you can write pretty much all js as expressions if you want to.
- kaba0 4y agoThat’s just as true of Java nowadays, though. Plenty of languages have REPLs.
- dgb23 4y agoI agree, I write JS professionally. But there is a _qualitative_ difference between interactive development between JS and a Lisp like Clojure. And "pretty much" is also qualitatively less expressive than "everything is an expression". I write expression based, simple, mostly functional JS and I use tools to make that as interactive as is practical. But there's still a lot of friction and differences between that and development with a Lisp (in my case Clojure).