[jhck]

I felt the same way when I first wanted to try the language (have to use Windows for work). I went to clojure.org only to find the message:

  Installation on Windows: Not yet available - see Leiningen or Boot instead.

That was a disappointment to me, seeing as the language has been around for more than 10 years now. Also, when I went to try the Leiningen route I found that the installer wouldn't work on Windows 10:

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/2412

So I decided to try another language instead... But eventually I returned to Clojure and managed to get it up and running by using the fix that's suggested in the GitHub issue above. I'm really enjoying the language, but I fully agree that it can be frustrating to install on Windows.

[Fellshard]

The leiningen setup has been fairly stable, if still a bit obnoxious these days. It's a bit more difficult to get the supporting tools up than the language, in my opinion.

[ilikehurdles]

That's disappointing. I've been using clojure with windows 10 and didn't run into this problem, but I think I used https://scoop.sh/ to install it. I'm not really interested in the clj tool and deps.edn until it's gone through a few releases.

[puredanger]

We've done 13 releases of clj so far. It's pretty stable now.