[Munksgaard]

Clojure in Emacs with Slime is hardly a simple text editor. Emacs might be ancient, but that doesn't make it less powerful.

There are also plenty of great documentation for Clojure, Programming Clojure is one, and the online documentation is excellent.

[mattdeboard]

Well now, I love Clojure and write it for my hobby projects, but I have to disagree about the online documentation for it. Every command is documented, sure, but that doesn't make it excellent. For example, here's the doc for the `with-open' macro:

"bindings => [name init ...]

Evaluates body in a try expression with names bound to the values of the inits, and a finally clause that calls (.close name) on each name in reverse order."

I deliberately chose a bit of code that's actually pretty simple and straightforward; also, one that I know intimately. Now, knowing what `with-open' does as well as I do, this doc string almost makes sense on the first pass. But to the layman this is almost impenetrable. I've written a couple variants of this macro and I STILL have to read the docstring a couple of times to understand what it's saying.

The online docs are comprehensive but I would never use the term "excellent" to describe them.

[Munksgaard]

Good point. The clojuredocs version[1] is a bit better, but you're right, it could be better.

[1] http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/with-open