[flaie]

Author here:

I recently gave a talk at work to show why Clojure is a good fit and show some of the possibilities and its ecosystem.

People got interested and wanted to try stuff but were overwhelmed with what to choose (lein, deps, boot) which editor to use, what's a REPL, why should I use one, how to use it (from the IDE) and some other stuff like where to learn Clojure.

So I decided to write an introduction regarding all that (covering IntelliJ & VSCode since it's the tooling people use at work). Don't hesitate to give feedback as this surely can be improved.

Note: it doesn't cover ClojureScript but I would be glad to cover it in the same manner in another post.

[jmiskovic]

The site looks very slick. I like the end-to-end shaded background on code blocks.

Regarding content, it is very hard to write this kind of introduction because there are so many choices on how to set up the first project and most of those choices would be completely unfamiliar to those comming from other languages. My only recommendation would to set up a repo that would bootstrap the process, or direct people to Maria [0] CLJS notebook so they don't have to deal with compiler, REPL and unfamiliar IDE while also learning language.

[0] www.maria.cloud