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 ## About [↟](#table-of-contents)
 
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+This project has a long history of not coming into being, despite there being a need for it in the LFE community from fairly early in the language's history. The [initial impetus](https://github.com/lfe/lfe/issues/153) and all subsquent community feature requests have been 100% inspired by what the larger Clojure community has in the [nREPL](https://nrepl.org/nrepl/1.1/index.html) project.
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+The xrepl project has as its primary mission:
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+> To explore strange new LFE REPL use cases, to seek out new REPL features and new interactive development possibilities, to boldly go where LFE-proper hasn't gone. Yet.
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+Anything good that comes out of this project that may be even remotely useful to LFE itself will result in a ticket and/or a PR against the LFE repository for Robert's reading pleasure and discression.
 
 ## Build [↟](#table-of-contents)