What programming language features are well suited for developing a live coding framework?

Question

I would like to build a \"live coding framework\".

I should explain what is meant by \"live coding framework\". I\'ll do so by comparing live coding to traditional codin

Answer 1

It's well and good to have 'live coding' on your dev box, but a way to directly interact with a deployed server takes it a lot closer to being 'real'. For this you need a network aware REPL.

clojure provides this nicely in the form of a socket repl. This allows you to remotely attach to the running version of your code on your deployed tomcat server (for instance). You can then attach your favorite swank-enabled development tool and hack away.