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Rich Hickey compares REPL design with RPC style nREPL: https://groups.google.com/g/clojure-dev/c/Dl3Stw5iRVA/m/IHoVWiJz5UIJ Rich considers the nesting ability to be important. If the user is interacting with stdout/stdin, they can enter arbitrary other text UIs.

Page 36 of A History of Clojure has some interesting comments on things Rich would have done differently: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386321 The very first item? Better errors! Clojure has improved significantly recently, but doing a good job here is hard (but important!) in any language.

I've realised that there are text transformations I can do in markdown that often aren't possible in rich text. E.g. from [foo bar](https://example.com/) to foo [bar](https://example.com/) Rich text usually forces me to remove the old link then highlight the new range.