deps.clj VS flow-storm-debugger

Try https://github.com/borkdude/deps.clj

This MSI installer downloads deps.clj and installs it as `clj.exe` and `clojure.exe`. It works in cmd.exe and Powershell. The goal of this installer is to bring a smoother and more familiar installation experience for Clojure developers on Windows than the current Powershell module.

You can try deps.clj which works without Powershell.

See https://github.com/borkdude/deps.clj/blob/master/deps.bat for an example.

Tracing debuggers give you the best of both worlds. I've recently started using Flow-storm [0], by @jpmonettas), and it's been quite transformative. You can still easily see the values flowing through your system (better than just "prints"), and it can handle multi-threaded / async scenarios quite nicely. You don't need to manually step through code, you can just "see" your data flow, and when you have loops or some other form of iteration, you can see the data for each pass. Coupling this with a good data visualization tool (such as Portal [1]) really feels like magic. I've been doing Clojure for quite a few years now, and was very happy with my plain REPL-driven workflow, but this is way better.

[0] https://github.com/jpmonettas/flow-storm-debugger

[1] https://github.com/djblue/portal

This is another example, a tracing time travel debugger for Clojure https://github.com/jpmonettas/flow-storm-debugger

Supports a bunch of stuff described there and more.

Lisps have some good tooling around debugging, for example clojure's flowstorm or common lisp which has built into the language most of what this article is talking about.

There's some good debugging tooling for Clojure as well. A recent entrant is https://github.com/jpmonettas/flow-storm-debugger and of course there's the estabilished pretty full featured debugging features in CIDER (Emacs), Calva (VS Code) and Cursive (IntelliJ). And for barebones tracing from REPL there's goo old clojure.tools.trace.

For Emacs there is something already if you use the Emacs integration described here https://github.com/jpmonettas/flow-storm-debugger/tree/flow-docs/editors.