Don't assume that nREPL servers are Clojure

[Wilfred]

Cider seems to the primary (only?) nREPL client in Emacs, and I'd love to use it with languages that aren't Clojure too. I'm particularly interested in using nREPL with my Garden programming language.

However, when connecting to a non-Clojure nREPL server, the buffer name is *cider-repl garden/sample_programs:localhost:7888(clj)* and there doesn't seem to be a way to set :repl-type to something else. It's hardcoded to 'clj in cider-connect-clj and cider-connect is just an alias to cider-connect-clj.

This also means that cider-repl-init-code ends up sending Clojure code to the non-Clojure server.

[bbatsov]

Cider seems to the primary (only?) nREPL client in Emacs, and I'd love to use it with languages that aren't Clojure too. I'm particularly interested in using nREPL with my Garden programming language.

Primary, but not the only one. There's also https://github.com/sanel/monroe, although it's not very actively maintained in recent years.

I'm particularly interested in using nREPL with my Garden programming language.

Let me see what I can do about this. Cider already works with a bunch of Clojure-like languages, although admittedly there's plenty of room for improvement. See also https://docs.cider.mx/cider/platforms/overview.html

[bbatsov]

Btw, now you have one more options when it comes to nREPL clients for Emacs - https://github.com/nrepl/neat

I've put it together after thinking how to best make CIDER less tied to Clojure. After some experiments I realized that having a client that's language-agnostic from day 1 will be a lot easier than making CIDER language agnostic. It will still work reasonably well with any Clojurish language, but neat is probably a better option for everything else.