Hello all. I find starting the clojure runtime to be pretty slow especially on my old mba. Do clojure devs mostly stay in the repl in order to get a fast feedback loop?

@airportyh: Yes, generally while developing Clojure applications you stick to a REPL. There are also a number of resources to make Leiningen faster here - https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/wiki/Faster

If you’re just trying a lot of things out though, you may still find it slow because you need to change your project.clj often

For that, I’d use Alembic - https://github.com/pallet/alembic

Which lets you reload dependencies without restarting the REPL

ah okay thanks

also came across the reloaded lein template

https://github.com/stuartsierra/reloaded

so without alembic, you would have to restart the repl each time after adding a dependency?

In emacs, with cider 0.8.2, is there a way to create and jump to a test for the current clj source file?