[Xorlev]

Hey, this is awesome. I've never been able to get too far with Clojure because of unfamiliarity with tooling and lack of desire to setup Emacs/Slime.

[crucialfelix]

Emacs + nrepl if properly set up is really the killer combo. You get instant popup-style access to documentation, auto-complete, repl and unit test integration.

with paredit the ( ) handle themselves pretty much.

I wrote up some notes on setting it up here:

http://crucialfelix.github.io/clojure/2013/05/16/learn-by-wr...

[craigching]

Slime is the deprecated way of working with Clojure in emacs, nrepl is the future:

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/nrepl.el

This doesn't avoid emacs though if you're not an emacs user ;)

This is loads easier to setup and works really, really well.

[danneu]

I'm having success introducing even my noob programmer friends to Clojure by directing them to install Leiningen (Clojure's build tool) and Lighttable (editor with integrated repl).

Generate the project skeleton:

$ lein new foobar

Open up folder `foobar` with Lighttable, and you can begin evaluating code in your source files (it starts you with foobar/src/core.clj).

And you're off.

[MBlume]

If you're actually avoiding Emacs, Vim/Fireplace/nRepl feels pretty darn good =)