🚨 liveness-reducing tradeoff detected

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467809

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@albertzak Always felt like one kind of liveness for another to me πŸ€·πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ

@daveliepmann should the compiler be helpful, or imperceptible?

i don't want to feel that there's a compilation step happening between my editor and the running system.

(just let me define and redefine stuff, in any order, without #')

@albertzak Am I right to assume what you’re describing is an entirely reactive system (like hot reload), or are there eval-just-this-sexp actions?
@daveliepmann you're right; eval-this feels off to me too (unless it's pure)
@daveliepmann you never know what stuff you accumulated over there