Sharpening CIDER’s Debugging Tools

The series on the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 rolls on. This time: the “what is my code actually doing?” toolbox - the debugger, tracing, enlighten, and the new tap viewer. This was the part of the release I enjoyed working on the most, and the part that needed the most love. The debugger, dusted off CIDER’s interactive debugger is one of its most impressive features and, paradoxically, one of its least reliable ones. Instrumenting arbitrary Clojure code is hard - the debugger rewrites your ...