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Clojure can to some extent help you get a full/true REPL into Java and any JVM language, but only to some extent. You'll have to use Clojure to get the full observability and program runtime-mutability.

Wow. I'm the creator of Calva and I can tell you that I do not have an opinion on how to use it. I would never say something like that, and now I wonder what I could have said that was interpreted this way...

By default Calva Paredit overrides three or so keyboard shortcuts. This is to help the users to not accidentally delete brackets, which in turn keeps the support questions down about broken Clojure code. I have tried to make it super easy to disable these overrides. There's a command for it. There's a button in the toolbar for it, and there's a setting for it.

There's also a setting for removing all Paredit bindings, even those that are not overriding any default ones. (This setting is for people who use Paredit, but want to provide their own shortcuts entirely.)

As a Clojure editor tool smith it pains me that this is the case. Especially for ClojureScript where I spend most of my time. I really want to fix this.

For JVM interop, I think Cursive (IntelliJ Clojure plugin) is smart enough to help with autocompleting Java libraries.

Thanks! Even though I am not super familiar with Ports & Adapters, this article made Polylith click in a way that no other article or video I've so far encountered has succeeded with. Composable mini-cores. Brilliant!

I am a member of the Interactive Programming cult, being dogmatic around one thing in particular: I demand that programming is joyful, else it is not for me.

Clojure changed my life. It made me realize how fun it is to code and switch back to being a programmer. This makes me a much happier person and thus a better husband and father. Never looking back. The Clojure Way just fits me perfectly.

Thanks for sharing this! It is a quite wonderful way to learn. Reminds me about Racket, which was my tool for following along the Land of LISP book.