cider VS debug-repl

Compare cider vs debug-repl and see what are their differences.

cider

The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs (by clojure-emacs)

debug-repl

A Clojure debug repl as nrepl middleware (by gfredericks)
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cider debug-repl
16 3
3,505 99
0.5% -
9.4 0.0
5 days ago over 3 years ago
Emacs Lisp Clojure
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Eclipse Public License 1.0
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cider

Posts with mentions or reviews of cider. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.
  • CIDER 1.8 ("Geneva") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 15 Oct 2023
  • Spinneret: A modern Common Lisp HTML generator
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    > 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.

  • Datomic Is Now Free
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
  • CIDER 1.7 ("Côte d'Azur")
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 24 Mar 2023
  • CIDER 1.6 ("Buenos Aires") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 21 Dec 2022
  • CIDER 1.5 ("Strasbourg") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 24 Aug 2022
  • CIDER 1.4 ("Kyiv") is out!
    1 project | /r/Clojure | 2 May 2022
  • Thoughts on Clojure λ
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2022
    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...)
  • On New IDEs
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 24 Nov 2021
    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.
  • An Update on CIDER 1.2
    2 projects | /r/Clojure | 24 Nov 2021
    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?

debug-repl

Posts with mentions or reviews of debug-repl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-06.
  • Debugging in Clojure
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2021
    Cursive's debugger doesn't, but as one of the other posters mentioned there's a library called debug-repl which gives you this: https://github.com/gfredericks/debug-repl.

    However, as I mentioned in the article, I've found it's usually better to use scope-capture than a debugger that pauses execution. The main reason is that I mainly work with Kafka Streams atm, and when the debugger pauses one thread other threads start timing out and throwing exceptions.

  • Let, try and other code blocks in the REPL
    4 projects | /r/Clojure | 24 Mar 2021
    I think gary already did this with debug repl.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cider and debug-repl you can also consider the following projects:

lem - Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

scope-capture - Project your Clojure(Script) REPL into the same context as your code when it ran

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

mulog - μ/log is a micro-logging library that logs events and data, not words!

doom - Doom Emacs config

spyscope - Trace-oriented debugging tools for Clojure

origami.el - A folding minor mode for Emacs

lexikon - Reify, manipulate and replay the lexical environment in Clojure

inf-clojure - Basic interaction with a Clojure subprocess

Cider - A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀

nrepl - A Clojure network REPL that provides a server and client, along with some common APIs of use to IDEs and other tools that may need to evaluate Clojure code in remote environments.

clojure - The Clojure programming language