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It is so cool to see how far things have come since ClojureScript first worked with React Native in 2015. Krell is the best REPL for this IMHO, and it does this largely by getting out of your way. :)

Vouch Key is not tied to Apple products. It works with Android, for example.

I haven't. But I suspect that's next. If you compare things like Lumo / Planck (ClojureScript) to Babashka (GraalVM-based Clojure), you can clearly see the perf benefits of going native.

This stuff is arguably just an initial foray into the embedded world. You could imagine a Clojure dialect or compiler that emits WASM, or C, or even native code.

The primary challenge is RAM. The (simplistic) approach I took with establishing a ClojureScript REPL is to have the standard library available, and that requires a lot more RAM than most Espruino boards have. Even with the ESP32, I had to make a few tweaks to Espruino in order to make more of the ESP32's RAM available.

Perhaps a more sophisticated approach could be devised involving "faulting in" ClojureScript standard library functions on demand as they are used, and by doing this use less RAM and reduce startup latency. If that were done, things would run on a broader range of chips (less RAM needed).

I personally mainly use Replete for quick checks of things when AFK (seeing what a particular form might evaluate to, checking a docstring, etc.) In, short I've never really used Replete for any heavy development.

When Lisping existed (it is evidently no longer available), I was never really motivated to use it to develop code with Replete.

Ahh, cool. TIL.

One advantage is that Replete requires no network connectivity to evaluate forms. The compilation and evaluation is done directly on your device.

You’d need to first do

  (require ‘replete.http)

in order to load the code for that namespace.

You should be able to copy output by pressing on a history row.

Yeah, ClojureScript is really a dialect of Clojure.

They have hugely different applications, but at a certain level, they look like the same language.