Tutkain VS nrepl

Sublime Text actually has more than one very good Clojure integrations. Here's the other one: https://tutkain.flowthing.me/

Using EDN does not mean you need to implement complete EDN support. Implementing enough to match approximately what Bencode offers (and a bit more, in fact) is by no means prohibitively difficult. In some ways (encoding comes to mind), it is actually easier. EDN also leaves you the option for future extensibility, which neither JSON or Bencode can offer.

I'd certainly be willing to make auto-closing parents and indentation on Enter optional and as easy as possible to disable. I don't want them to stand in anyone's way of using Tutkain. If you'd like that, please file an issue.

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.