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clojure-dev 2025-09-26
hey @alexmiller you've mentioned before that you use https://github.com/clj-commons/virgil when working on Clojure Core. have you ever written about that workflow? restarting my repl isn't hard but it's a little annoying.
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2025-09-26T15:23:52.727619Z
I've never used virgil
oh? huh, I guess I was thinking of someone or something else
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2025-09-26T15:24:24.032119Z
I do rely on Cursive's hot reloading though
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Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2025-09-26T15:24:59.897669Z
hot reloading the Compiler in a live repl is the best :)
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yeah, i bet it is
oyakushev 2025-09-26T19:47:05.434839Z
I use Virgil a lot. My workflow is simply doing doing (virgil/compile-java ["src"]) after editing Java files, amd then C-c C-k the namespace that imports those java classes and uses them. If the java classes usage in question is more spread out accross the project, it makes sense to reload with tools.namespace of clj-reload afterwards, but I personally don't use them, manual reloading of namespaces is enough for me.
cfleming 2025-09-27T02:03:25.333629Z
@alexmiller I recommend using JetBrains' Runtime, it includes the DCEVM extensions and allows for much more extensive code reloading.
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2025-09-27T03:52:31.035589Z
not familiar with that, so I'll try it sometime. I have found the reloading support I've been using to be pretty great though, feels like I usually I can reload successfully