Comment by fulafel
9 hours ago
People do it in Clojure all the time in the dev setup. And you technically can do in your customer environments too, but it's of course a bit of a cowboy thing to do there.
9 hours ago
People do it in Clojure all the time in the dev setup. And you technically can do in your customer environments too, but it's of course a bit of a cowboy thing to do there.
"Cowboy thing" is putting it mildly. It invites/incentivises terrible behavioral patterns. The next guy looking has no idea what happened to that running system. (That next guy may well be you yourself a week or month later.)