Clojure-Sublimed VS nrepl

I recently saw there was a new Clojure plugin for Sublime Text called Sublime Clojure by Tonsky: https://github.com/tonsky/sublime-clojure

In his documentation he mentions that he made the plugin in part because he did not want Paredit mandated by a plugin. I was curious to see what kind of structural editing he used instead, so I tuned into one of his streams. Turns out he just writes raw lisp in sublime text, and he's fast as hell at it too.

Since then I've been trying out using Sublime for Clojure development and falling back on Intellij when I need anything more than basic inline/REBL debugging, and I'm very happy with it so far.

He participated in the discussions here, but so far there hasn't been any actual work happening after them. My focus was mostly on CIDER lately, but I think it'd be nice to start creating some tickets based on the discussions and try to get some work done on that front. There were plenty of cool ideas and most of them aren't particularly hard to implement.

There’s active discussion on the nrepl repo about this article and related issues, so if you have thoughts about the future of nrepl, you should voice them there!

I'm very excited about sideloader feature in nREPL 0.9 and the corresponding ability for CIDER to upgrade the connection, adding its middleware. But I don't see this connection upgrading feature ticket #3037 in the plans for CIDER 1.2, but the sideloader ticket #246 is listed in the plans for nREPL 0.9. It seems that #3037 is held only by #246, so if it will be solved by the time 0.9 release, will there be plans to supporting it in CIDER 1.2?

No and no. Scheme is loosely biased toward FP and still you still have a REPL with Scheme dialects, including Racket going as far as to provide an IDE+REPL combination (DrRacket). Clojure is strongly opinionated toward FP and also has a strong REPL experience and a good experience for interactive, iterative development on running programs via nrepl. OCaml, another functional language from the ML family, has one of the best non-lispi REPLs (called a "toplevel" there) around. And, of course, you can do FP in CL as well despite it not really encouraging it in the same way.