There are significantly more productive ways to work, but they'll require you to know your environment well.
I work in emacs with 2 repls running - 1 for running my app and 1 for running my tests. I use emacs-live[1], the unplugged-pack[2], & expectations[3] for my tests. In emacs 'switch projects' via a command defined in unplugged-pack, then I M-x expectations-repl to have a expectations dedicated repl. The result: C-c C-k loads any changes I make in a buffer into the running environments. I can navigate to any expectations test ns and run all of the tests with C-c C-, - there's no start and stop other than at the beginning. Any changes I make and C-c C-k will be immediately reflected in both my running application and in the tests. I don't find myself ever waiting for feedback, in fact, I strongly believe my current workflow is faster than any TDD workflow I've used in the past. The learning curve is steep, but the payout is large. [1] http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/ [2] https://github.com/jaycfields/unplugged-pack [3] http://jayfields.com/expectations/ On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > The clojure start-up time is killing me, while working in a tight > edit-test-edit development loop. Is there any way to speed this up? E.g. > could the edited code be dynamically loaded, and the test suites run w/o > restarting the jvm? I have previously experimented with nailgun for > starting the repl, without much success. I suspect it's the clojure > start-up time, not the jvm, that's taking so long, but I know next to > nothing about the jvm and clojure start-up procedures. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
