scope-capture VS spec-tools

Awesome tools.

Personally I can't imagine coding in clojure without scope capture

https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/scope-capture

I haven't tried it myself. I generally just use truss for runtime constraint checking. I use a modified version that integrates scope-capture. And malli validation for more complex cases, but I try to limit that. For me it is better to validate individual attributes as needed, vs validating an entire "type"/collection of attributes. So each function only cares about the attributes that it needs, and validates only as needed.

Use scope-capture to observe the actual data flowing through the system

Scope capture library https://github.com/vvvvalvalval/scope-capture automates this approach.

Is anyone aware of any prior art along the lines of this? I've seen scope-capture but it's more about instrumenting existing programs than writing new ones interactively.

I am not advocating against the use of a compiler. I am going to illustrate how to reproduce the scope of a program and replay it in the REPL as it is done for instance in Clojure with scope-capture. In some use cases, I find this approach is simpler than using a debugger. This approach is possible only because the data is immutable.

I'd like to use a syntax like how ::input-correlations-concise is defined, but am having trouble debugging the spec-tools.data-spec error ("Unable to resolve spec: :app.specs/input-correlations-concise") after setting it up with these instructions. I also want to make sure I'm doing things the "right" way.

I like spec-tools data specs. I never got into schema, although I was aware of it. spec came along and swept a substantial portion of the crowd (I think the interleaving of parsing and regex style operators is slick/useful). Malli looks excellent though, and I think it's worthy of learning. I have no opinion on spec2 as of yet.