# Live development with Light Table for JavaScript, Python, and Clojure

DevFeed: [Live development with Light Table for JavaScript, Python, and Clojure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/live-development-is-the-way-of-the-future-32122.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/fireplace-dot-vim-clojures-secret-weapon/>)

Published: 2013-07-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Clojure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clojure.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [like](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/like.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Lisp](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/lisp.md>), [Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emacs.md>), [Erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/erlang.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [clojure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clojure.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [languages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/languages.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains live development as sending code from an editor or tool to a REPL for evaluation. It discusses exploratory programming and reviews Light Table's support for JavaScript, Python, and Clojure, including its inline evaluation workflow.

## Source excerpt

Live development is nothing new; it's been well-explored in Lisps and in other languages like Smalltalk and Erlang since more or less the dawn of man. Emacs was for a long time - and by many still is - considered the only way to develop for Lisp, thanks to SLIME. But I with projects such as Light Table, and a growing popularity of functional and dynamic languages in general, I think we'll see live coding become seriously popular as capable mainstream tools collide with capable mainstream languages.