pomegranate VS cider

https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate

However, to do this it uses the same library lein uses for dependency resolution and classpath creation. And of course you can integrate with either deps.edn or project.clj.

You are looking for pomegranate

You can try https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate

He mentioned that he's using the add-lib3 branch of tools.deps.alpha to get hot-loading dependencies. If you use lein instead, the pomegranate library enables it.

The only time I need to restart is when I load new libraries but you can use https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate

> I do think cider (https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider) has stuff regarding stepping debuggers, but I'm not sure how common it is to use it. Maybe other Clojure users can fill me in :)

I don't really care about stepping; for me the debugger is about inspecting the state of my program when an exception (maybe because I interrupted it, or because I inserted a breakpoint, or just because something went wrong) happens. Backtrace, local variables, evaluating forms at different stack frames and so-forth.

This was a pain. I tried using vscode with calva, but gave up pretty soon after starting. Ended up using emacs with cider, which was pretty nice, but had a huge learning curve for me since I'm not an emacs user. (Maybe I am after this...)

I was wondering that what the author and other redditors here would think of/about Cursive, an affordable IDE for Clojure, while they have cider in Emacs as well.

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?