> yeah i’m not sure what the benefit or purpose of cider-restart is now ¯\(ツ)/¯

It’s still useful to be able to restart a single REPL/connection if you manage to mess up the REPL Emacs-side too bad.

I’ll try to make this all clearer in the docs.

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