I would do that if dynamically adding dependencies was more officially supported

Yeah - having to restart to pick up new deps is definitely a drawback.

That's actually a case where I'd want dynamic deps and conditions/restarts, because that process shouldn't die on me no matter what

If I were to use it like an operating system, it might have several threads busy doing other things I won't want to lose

Right - we want to be able to rely on the process finishing what it's doing. If the system is syncing some data in the background, I don't want to corrupt the state just because I'm restarting to add in a new dependency.

@U3X7174KS nbb may also help here: you can add npm deps at runtime and load them with nbb. it supports nrepl

Huh, interesting. Didn't know that. Thanks!

and it will likely also use less memory than a JVM - although with a reasonably sized laptop this isn't likely a problem with a JVM either

for deps.edn there is the add-lib branch for adding deps dynamically

#C1DV21X9P have some libs around this as well I think - but not the "official" tooling

> for deps.edn there is the add-lib branch for adding deps dynamically > Are you talking about JVM Clojure now?

yes

https://insideclojure.org/2018/05/04/add-lib/

(I've never tried it myself)

Gotcha. Thank you! Reading up on https://github.com/lambdaisland/launchpad now. This is interesting+useful.