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		coldtea on May 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Lisp? >Unit tests are small and fast so I don't even notice any inconvenience with the traditional compilation approach. Depends on the programming language, how much state they need to build up, and so on. And they're still slower than just running the actual live code anyway.

mrkeen on May 7, 2023 [–]

Possibly, but the unit tests are reproducible, committable code. They're like Dockerfiles for your REPL session.

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