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REPL the ultimate protocol.md

REPL the Ultimate Protocol: Notes for a hopefully better "tooling over repl" approach for Clojure

The single point of agreement between the server and the client should be that: there exists a stream-based plain repl running and connected (socket or pipes etc. is not relevant).

From there one can upgrade to a richer repl. The interesting fact is that since the upgrade is triggered by the client there can't be any mismatch between capabilities. Even if your editor scripting power is limited (coughvimcough) you can treat the clojure snippet required for upgrade as a blob.

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